syntypaikat
Syntypaikat is a Finnish term that translates roughly to birthplaces in English. It refers to the places where individuals were born and is used as a biographical and demographic data field in Finnish-language sources. The word combines synty (“to be born”) and paikka (“place”), with the plural form syntypaikat.
In practice, syntypaikat are recorded in genealogical records, biographical dictionaries, census data, and historical databases to
Limitations include privacy considerations for living individuals, the potential for multiple places associated with a single
See also: place of birth, genealogy, toponymy, demographic data, geographic information systems.