Category: Finland

Finland – located in the north of Europe, a significant part of its territory (25%) is located beyond the Arctic Circle. The country ranks first on Newsweek’s “World’s Best Countries” list. In the east and south it borders on Russia, in the north – on Norway, in the west – on Sweden. The southern coast…

(Suomen Tasavalta; Republiken Finland). State of Northern Europe (338,435 km²). Capital: Helsinki. Administrative division: provinces (6). Population: 5,517,919 (2018 estimate). Language: Finnish and Swedish (official), Lappish, Russian. Religion: Protestants 75.3%, non-religious / atheists 22.1%, Orthodox 1.1%, other religions 1.5%. Monetary unit: euro (100 cents). Human Development Index: 0.92 (15th place). Borders: Norway (N), Russia (E-SE), Sweden…

First inhabitant of Finland About 8500 BC Finland was first settled by humans. Different Stone Age cultures emerged. Around 1700 BC Chr. Hunters and gatherers became sedentary people who built houses and farmed. The Sami people lived in the north. In the south lived Finns who spoke a Finnish-Ugric language. Karelians from the Karelia region…

Press As a country located in Northern Europe, Finland has (2008) 49 daily newspapers (of which 32 are published 7 days a week) with a total circulation of approx. 2.17 million (2007). The leading – and in particular the biggest – Finnish newspaper is Helsingin Sanomat (edition 2007: 419 791). It is also the largest…

Literature The literature of Finland is written in three languages: Latin, Swedish and Finnish. Up to the major victims (1713-21), 60% of the books were in Latin, 30% in Swedish and 10% in Finnish. THE MIDDLE AGES The Latin Saint Henry legend of the 13th century is the oldest known literary text from Finland “Missale…

The economic situation was always improving also thanks to important commercial treaties established with the Soviet Union itself which, in 1955, as already mentioned, returned the base of Porkkala to Finland, definitively removing military servitude from the territory. On September 27 of the same year, Finland joined the Nordic Council and in December of the…