Finland (fin)

Finland

Finland ranks 2,259th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Knin, Minamiawaji, and Kalisz. Memorable people born in Finland include Aki Kaurismäki, Mika Kaurismäki, and Christina Abrahamsdotter. Memorable people who died in Finland include Toivo Mikael Kivimäki, Gunnar Nordström, and Harri Larva. Finland has been the birth place of many film directors, and musicians and the death place of many athletes, and wrestlers. Finland is located in Finland.

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