Finland

Finland

Finland ranks 30th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Greece, Switzerland, and Romania. Memorable people born in present day Finland include Alvar Aalto, Jean Sibelius, and Simo Häyhä. Memorable people who died in Finland include Alvar Aalto, Jean Sibelius, and Simo Häyhä. Finland has been the birth place of many athletes, and politicians and the death place of many athletes, and politicians.

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. Finland covers a total area of 338,145 square kilometres (130,559 sq mi), including a land area of 303,815 square kilometres (117,304 sq mi), and has a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. The official languages are Finnish and Swedish; 84.9 percent of the population speak the first as their mother tongue and 5.1 percent the latter. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to boreal in the north. The land cover is predominantly boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Read more on Wikipedia