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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 5.6 million. The official languages are Finnish and Swedish, the mother tongues of 84.1 percent and 5.1 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.

Finland was first settled around 9000 BC after the last Ice Age. During the Stone Age, various cultures emerged, distinguished by different styles of ceramics. The Bronze Age and Iron Ages were marked by contacts with other cultures in Fennoscandia and the Baltic region. From the late 13th century, Finland became part of Sweden following the Northern Crusades. In 1809, as a result of the Finnish War, Finland was captured from Sweden and became an autonomous grand duchy within the Russian Empire. During this period, Finnish art flourished and an independence movement gradually developed. (Full article...)

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Ilkka “Emu” Lehtinen at his store in 2016.

Ilkka Raimo Olavi “Emu” Lehtinen (3 March 1947 – 22 October 2017) was a record dealer in Helsinki, Finland, a founder and the chief executive officer of the record store Digelius Music. According to Helsingin Sanomat, Lehtinen was “a local guru for people who would be curious to listen to music irrespective of genres, and a person with whose help customers would find wonderful new experiences starting from clean slate.” According to another Helsinki newspaper, Hufvudstadsbladet, Lehtinen was “a living legend in Finnish music circles”. (Full article...)

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Juuso Pykälistö in his Peugeot 206 WRC during the 2003 Swedish Rally.

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... that the Grand Prix of Finland was held again in 2022 after Russia was banned from hosting international figure skating competitions?
... that a book about a Finnish Santa figure sold particularly well in Germany and Japan?
... that Charlotte Haining was an International Jury Member for the selection of Finland's 2020 Eurovision Song Contest entry?
... that Finland won its first Olympic ice hockey medal under the leadership of Kai Hietarinta?
... that the filmmakers of 100 Litres of Gold brewed 20 litres of sahti at the Finnish embassy in Rome for its premiere?
... that Kaija Saariaho's 2021 opera Innocence includes traditional Finnish cow-herding calls?

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...that the career of Tiia Piili, four-time FISAF World Champion in sport aerobics, was threatened when she got food poisoning attending a competition in Morocco?
...that Erkki Karu founded both Suomi-Filmi and Suomen Filmiteollisuus, the two largest film production companies during the 'Golden Age' of Finnish cinema?
...that "Blooddrunk", a track by Finnish band Children of Bodom about self-destructive behaviour, debuted at number one in Finland?
...that Taisto Mäki, one of the so-called Flying Finns, was the first man to run 10,000 metres in under half an hour?
...that when called by the opposition to quit after the Kauhajoki school shooting, Finnish politician Anne Holmlund refused and compared resigning her post as Interior Minister to "desertion"?

... that the asteroid 1536 Pielinen is named after Pielinen Lake (pictured) in Finland?

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Salo with the Tampa Bay Lightning in March 2014

Sami Sakari Salo (born 2 September 1974) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman of the National Hockey League (NHL). He began his professional career with TPS of the SM-liiga before being selected by the Ottawa Senators with their last pick in the 1996 NHL entry draft.

He joined the Senators in 1998–99 and was selected to the NHL All-Rookie Team. In the 2002 off-season, he was traded to the Vancouver Canucks with whom he recorded three 30-point campaigns. Prior to the 2012–13 NHL season he signed with the Lightning as a free agent. Due to the 2004–05 NHL lockout, Salo played overseas with Frölunda HC of the Swedish Elite League and helped the club capture the Le Mat Trophy as league champions. Internationally, Salo has competed for Finland, appearing in two World Championships, three Winter Olympics and one World Cup. He won silver medals at the 2001 World Championships and the 2006 Winter Olympics, as well as a bronze medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics. (Full article...)

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Image 1Stone Age dwelling named Kierikki 5000–3000 BC (from History of Finland)
Image 2Jean Sibelius at work in his study (from History of Finland)
Image 3Women dressed in Finnish folk costumes (from Culture of Finland)
Image 4Kastelli Giant's Church in Pattijoki by Pöljä culture (from History of Finland)
Image 5Kalmar Union in 1400s (from History of Finland)
Image 6Map of Finnish areas ceded to the Soviet Union in 1944, after the Continuation War (from History of Finland)
Image 7Memorial of the Mannerheim Cross Knights of Parikkala, Finland (from History of Finland)
Image 8Students on Helsinki's Esplanadi wearing their caps on Vappu (from Culture of Finland)
Image 9Finland Ostrobothnia regiment uniforms in 1705 (from History of Finland)
Image 10Imagery collage of Birger Jarl conquering Häme and the construction of Häme Castle (from History of Finland)
Image 11Sámi family in traditional costumes from Finland. (from Culture of Finland)
Image 12The ruins of Vammala burned by the Reds, during the Civil war (from History of Finland)
Image 13Finnish Guards' Rifle Battalion, 1850s (from History of Finland)
Image 14In the middle is the patron saint of Finland, Saint Henry, on the right side of him is Bishop Konrad Bitz and on the left is Dean Magnus Stjernkors; from Missale Aboense (1488) (from History of Finland)
Image 15Linus Torvalds, a famous Fennoswede software engineer, best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel (from Culture of Finland)
Image 16The public education system founded during earlier Swedish rule resulted the literacy of Grand Duchy of Finland being higher than its host country Russian Empire (map of 1897 census literacy data) (from History of Finland)
Image 17Stone Age stone axe engraved with human face found from Kiuruvesi. (from History of Finland)
Image 18The Swedish empire at its largest. Most of present-day Finland was part of Sweden proper, rike, shown in dark green. (from History of Finland)
Image 19Kreeta Haapasalo Playing the Kantele in a Peasant Cottage (1868), by Robert Wilhelm Ekman (from History of Finland)
Image 20Pekka Halonen's painting "against persecutors" from 1896 depicts the warfare of the ancient Finns. (from History of Finland)
Image 212007 Formula One World Champion Kimi Räikkönen celebrating victory at the 2007 Brazilian Grand Prix (from Culture of Finland)
Image 22Lapua Movement supporters beating the "red officer" Eino Nieminen in front of the Vaasa courthouse during the 4 June 1930 riot. (from History of Finland)
Image 23The Finno-Soviet Treaty (from History of Finland)
Image 24The part of Finland controlled by the Reds at its largest in February–March 1918 (from History of Finland)
Image 25A smoke sauna (savusauna) in Enonkoski (from Culture of Finland)
Image 26Paavo Nurmi at the 1920 Summer Olympics (from Culture of Finland)
Image 27(1809 Diet of Porvoo) The sovereign's pledge, printed in Finnish (from History of Finland)
Image 28The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), a significant figure in the history of classical music (from Culture of Finland)
Image 29Battle of Valkeala was part of the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790). (from History of Finland)
Image 30Northern Europe in 814 (from History of Finland)
Image 31Apocalyptica's Perttu Kivilaakso playing metal music live (from Culture of Finland)
Image 32Karjalanpiirakka, a traditional Finnish pastry (from Culture of Finland)
Image 33Signing the Helsinki Accords are the West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, East Germany's leader Erich Honecker, US president Gerald Ford and the Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky (from History of Finland)
Image 34In 2011 figure skater Kiira Korpi was ranked 4th in the world. (from Culture of Finland)
Image 35S/S Urania in Hanko harbor in 1893, with 509 emigrants on board on their way to America (from History of Finland)
Image 36Janne Ahonen is considered one of the best and most successful currently active ski jumpers. (from Culture of Finland)
Image 37A group of Finnish soldiers operating a Bofors gun during the Continuation War in 1943 (from History of Finland)
Image 38People gathered in the Senate Square for a demonstration against the February Manifesto in March 1899. (from History of Finland)
Image 39A triptych by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, depicting the Aino Story of Kalevala on three panes (from Culture of Finland)
Image 40Wehrmacht soldiers with a local Sámi reindeer herder, Lappland, Sodankylä, Finland 1942 (from History of Finland)
Image 41Turku Cathedral and its surroundings from 1814 (from History of Finland)
Image 42This 1825 map of the Grand Duchy of Finland is from a larger work, geographical atlas of the Russian Empire. (from History of Finland)
Image 43Prehistoric red ochre painted rock art of moose, human figures, and boats in Astuvansalmi, Finland, from ca. 3800–2200 BC (from Culture of Finland)
Image 44A view of Pohjoisesplanadi in the center of Helsinki in 1891 (from History of Finland)
Image 45Eero Järnefelt, Burning the Brushwood, 1893 (from History of Finland)
Image 46Mikael Agricola hands over the Finnish Translation of the New Testament to King Gustav Wasa. (from History of Finland)
Image 47Erkki Karu, one of the pioneers of the Finnish cinema, with cinematographer Eino Kari in 1927 (from Culture of Finland)
Image 48Painting of Lalli killing Henry. Painting by C. A. Ekman. (from History of Finland)
Image 49Badge of the Finnish White/Civil Guard (from History of Finland)
Image 50Three Finnish Romani women in Helsinki, Finland, in 1930s (from Culture of Finland)
Image 51Portrait of Finnish poet Elias Lönnrot who wrote "the Kalevala" (1802 - 1884) (from History of Finland)
Image 52Midsummer bonfire (kokko) in Mäntsälä (from Culture of Finland)
Image 53Helsinki Accords Treaty (from History of Finland)
Image 54The decision of the Soviet of the People's Comissars' to recognise Finnish independence, signed by Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Grigory Petrovsky, Joseph Stalin, Isaac Steinberg, Vladimir Karelin, and Alexander Schlichter (from History of Finland)
Image 55Captain Aarne Juutilainen at the front at Kollaa during the Winter War (from History of Finland)
Image 56Grand Duchy of Finland, 75 kopek assignat (1824) (from History of Finland)
Image 57A reconstruction of a 12th-century Perniö costume (from History of Finland)
Image 58Alvar Aalto, Viipuri Library (1927–35) (from Culture of Finland)
Image 59An old drawing of the city of Turku in the 18th century (from History of Finland)
Image 60President K. J. Ståhlberg in his office in 1919 (from History of Finland)
Image 61The first government of independent Finland. P. E. Svinhufvud, the first Prime Minister of Finland, sitting at the head of the table. (from History of Finland)
Image 62Finnish folk dancers in a 1907 postcard sent from Mustamäki, Finland (from Culture of Finland)
Image 63A summer cottage (mökki) on a lake island (from Culture of Finland)
Image 64Homann's map of the Scandinavian Peninsula and Fennoscandia with their surrounding territories: northern Germany, northern Poland, the Baltic region, Livonia, Belarus, and parts of Northwest Russia. Johann Baptist Homann (1664–1724) was a German geographer and cartographer; map dated around 1730. (from History of Finland)
Image 65President Urho Kekkonen's funeral procession in 1986 (from History of Finland)
Image 66The area of Finland in the years 1920–1940. The 1935 county and municipality division on the map. (from History of Finland)
Image 67Jussipaita (transl. Jussi sweater); a traditional sweater from the Finnish region of Southern Ostrobothnia (from Culture of Finland)
Image 68Battle of Gangut (Hanko) was part of the Great Northern War during 1700–1721. (from History of Finland)
Image 69Women in sauna with Vihtas
Image 70A peasant girl and a woman in traditional dress from Ruokolahti, eastern Finland, as depicted by Severin Falkman in 1882 (from Culture of Finland)
Image 71Ancylus Lake covered major part of Finland (7,500–6,000 BC) (from History of Finland)
Image 72The area controlled by Finland at its largest, in 1942 (from History of Finland)
Image 73Marshal of Finland Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim visit in Germany, 1942 (from History of Finland)
Image 74Identification document and tag of a Finnish war child (from History of Finland)
Image 75Winter War Monument in Suomussalmi, Kainuu, Finland (from History of Finland)
Image 76In the sauna, by Pekka Halonen, 1925 (from Culture of Finland)
Image 77Pieces of the Antrea Net (8,300 BC), the oldest-known fishing net in the world. (from History of Finland)

In the news

5 February 2026 – 2026 Winter Olympics: The match between Finland and Canada in the women's ice hockey tournament at the Winter Olympics is postponed to February 12 after a norovirus outbreak affected 13 members of the Finnish team. (NBC)
21 January 2026 – Greenland crisis, Tariffs in the second Trump administration: United States president Donald Trump announces he will cancel the planned tariffs on Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom after reaching an agreement with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte for a Greenland framework. He also stated at the World Economic Forum that he has ruled out sending forces amidst invasion fears. (BBC News) (Fortune)
3 October 2025 –: A Finnish court dismisses charges against the crew of the Eagle S tanker, ruling prosecutors failed to prove intent in the 2024 Estlink 2 incident and that negligence must be addressed by the ship's flag state or crew's home countries. (Reuters)
14 September 2025 – EuroBasket 2025: In basketball, Germany defeats Turkey 88–83 in the EuroBasket 2025 final, with Dennis Schröder selected as the MVP. In the third-place match, Greece beats Finland. (FIBA)
5 September 2025 – Finland–Latvia relations, Belarus–European Union border crisis: Finland accepts Latvia's request to deploy border guards at the Belarus–Latvia border to help manage increased migration from Belarus, with Estonia and Lithuania also providing support. (Reuters)
5 September 2025 – Finland–Palestine relations, Diplomatic impact of the Gaza war: Finland joins the New York Declaration calling for the end of the Gaza war and advancing a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. (Reuters)

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