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Practice Finland

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Finland

FI / FIN   65.0°, 27.0°

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, opposite Estonia. Its capital and largest city is Helsinki. Finland has a population of 5.7 million. The official languages are Finnish and Swedish, the mother tongues of 83.5 percent and 5.0 percent of the population, respectively. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to boreal in the north. Its land is predominantly covered by boreal forest, with over 180,000 recorded lakes.

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People are called
Finnish
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+358
Capital
Helsinki
Population
5,652,881
Area
338,478 km2
Climate
Temperate
Government
Parliamentary republic
Currency
Euro
Languages
Finnish 85.9%, Swedish 5.2%, Russian 1.7%
Sells
paper, refined petroleum, steel, wood pulp
Sells to
USA 11%, Germany 11%, Sweden 10%
Land borders
3: Norway, Russia, Sweden
Drives on the
right
Calling code
+358
Founded
1917
Hemisphere
Northern

WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED

Finnish

These are English demonyms for people from Finland. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.

Demonym source: mledoze/countries · Download the attributed dataset (ODbL)

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SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS

Civilizations, flags & standards

Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.

A sourced civilization and flag trail has not been added for Finland yet. No ancient flag is inferred from the modern one.

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Turning points

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Religion: state & society

An official religion is a legal status. The largest religious group is a population measure. Neither describes every person's beliefs.

Official status and a dated affiliation breakdown have not been checked for this country. The atlas's religion tags are not a population ranking.

BEYOND THE MAP

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Where it is

Languages

Share of the population that speaks each. Click one to see every country that speaks it.

Finnishofficial
85.9%
Swedishofficial
5.2%
1.7%

Largest cities

Helsinki  capital 658,864
Espoo 323,910
Tampere 260,646
Vantaa 252,724
Oulu 216,066

Wars and conflicts

Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others. Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing, occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the quiz no longer asks who fought in what.

Form of government

Parliamentary republic.

Climate and geography

cold temperate; potentially subarctic but comparatively mild because of moderating influence of the North Atlantic Current, Baltic Sea, and more than 60,000 lakes

Climate zone

Highest point

Northern hemisphere.

Figures from its history

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Marshal and president Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was a Finnish military commander and statesman.
Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius Composer Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods.
Tarja Halonen
Tarja Halonen First female president Tarja Kaarina Halonen is a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland, and the first and to date only woman to hold the position in Finland, from 2000 to 2012.

Checked facts

Most of this page is imported in bulk and carries no source of its own. These entries were checked by hand against the source named, and are reapplied after every dataset rebuild so a refetch cannot quietly put the old value back.

  • Member of european union — Full member states only, as the organisation itself lists them.
    The imported member_of list is out of date for this organisation and is not asked about.
    Source · true as of 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-11
  • Member of nato — Full member states only, as the organisation itself lists them.
    The imported member_of list is out of date for this organisation and is not asked about.
    Source · true as of 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-11

Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data (2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source: currencies.