EU Project for geography

2. • The capital of Finland is Helsinki.
• As of 2013 Finland has a population of 5.439 million.
• It is located north of Europe between Sweden and Russia.
• Finland's total area is 337,030 km2
(130,128 sq mi). Finland is the eighth largest
country in Europe.
• 90.37% speak Finnish as their first
language the remainder speak Swedish
(5.42%) , Sami and other languages.

3. • Summer is warm and bright with almost 20 hours of daylight
at the latitude of Helsinki. The temperature often rises to
+20 °C or more and occasionally even gets above +30°C.
• Winter, northern Finland is covered by snow from November
to April. In the south, the snow usually arrives in December.
• In southern Finland, the shortest day is about 6 hours long. In
winter, temperatures of -20°C are not uncommon in many
areas. The nights during winter are very long.
• Autumn and spring are transitional seasons. They can be
rainy, but also bright and sunny.

4. • Finland joined the European Union in 1995.
• They were one of the first-wave countries to adopt the euro
on 1 January 1999.
• They joined because the state of the economy was very bad
the unemployment rate increased from 3.2% in 1990 to
16.6% in 1994 .
• Since Finland joined the euro their economic growth has been
relatively stable at between 2% and 3%.
• Unemployment has halved to an estimated 6.3% in 2008.
• The Finnish stock market has had an annual rise of 1.3% over
10 years.

5. • As the total area of Finland is 337,030 km2 only 10% is water,
69% forest, 8% cultivated land and 13% other.
• It is a low – lying country and is covered by mainly lakes and
forests.
• Finland is called 'the land of the thousand lakes‘.
• More than 187,888 lakes cover Finland this is because it
covered by glaciers during the last Ice Age .
• The country also has a long coastline,
which extends to about 1,250
kilometres.

6. • Helsinki - Is capital of Finland. Tourists go their to visit
country's finest museums, art galleries, restaurants, and to
shop.
• Northern Lights - Seeing the Northern Lights is a once-in-a-
lifetime treat. Finland is perhaps the top country in the world
for seeing these lights.
• Lemmenjoki National Park - A tract over boreal forest in the
largest park in Finland. This is the place to find brown bear,
wolves, and wild golden eagles as well
as moose and reindeer.

7. • Finnish athletes have won more Summer Olympic medals per
capita than any other nation. As of 2012, Finland had won in
total 302 Summer Olympic medals (including 101 gold
medals) for a population of only 5.4 million.
• Finland has the highest level of academic achievements of all
surveyed countries for reading, mathematics and sciences.
But it has the lowest percentage of children 'liking school a
lot' (only 8%).
• The Finnish people are the world's biggest
coffee drinkers, drinking 12 kg annually,
three times more than Americans.

8. • Pesäpallo is the national sport of Finland and ice hockey and
formula one are also extremely popular.
• Ice hockey in Finland is considered more popular than soccer
as more people watch it.
• There has been an annual wife carrying world championship
in Finland every year since 1997. Percipients are required to
carry their wife over their shoulder and run through different
obstacles.