Facts about Finland

FINLAND

Finland (Suomi), is a country noted for its lakes and forests, and in the north, in Lapland, its icy expanses. It is a highly developed country attracting over four million tourists annually.

LOCATION: Eastern Scandinavia

BORDERED BY: Sweden, Norway and Russia.

CAPITAL: Helsinki (pop. 600,000)

LARGEST CITY: Helsinki

POPULATION of COUNTRY: 5.374 million (112th in the world)

AREA: 338,424 square kilometres (64th largest country - about the size of Vietnam)

POPULATION DENSITY: 16 per square kilometre (201st in the world)

INDEPENDENCE: January 4^th 1918 INDEPENDENCE DAY: December 6th

CURRENCY: Euro. Currently about 1.35 euros to the Australian dollar.

CLIMATE: Warm summers and freezing winters.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Finnish and Swedish, English is spoken by 63 percent.

RELIGION: Christian (Protestant)

TIME ZONE: Eastern European Time. (GMT + 2 )

PHONE PREFIX: 358 DRIVES ON: the right.

FLAG: Dark blue offset cross on white background.

CUISINE: basic dishes feature seafood, meat, root vegetables and grains, especially rye.

MORE INFORMATION: Visit Finland

BOOKS: Moomintroll books, by Tove Jansson.

INTERESTING FACTS:

There are approximately 60,000 lakes in Finland, covering approximately 10 per cent of the country.
Finland recycles 90 percent of its container waste,
Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugrik language family and is related to Hungarian and Estonian.
Cinderella is known as Tuhkimo in Finland.
The most eastern part of the western world is located in Ilomantsi, Finland.
Kerimski Church in Finland is world's biggest church made of wood.
The Helsinki Olympic Games in 1952 holds the record for the one where the most number of world records were broken.
Turku is one of the two European Capitals of Culture in 2011. The other is Tallinn, Estonia.
Turku was Finland's capital until 1812.

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