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, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, and Simo Häyhä. Memorable people who died in Finland include Alvar Aalto, Simo Häyhä, and Jean Sibelius. 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 has a population of 5.6 million, the majority being ethnic Finns. Its capital and largest city is Helsinki. 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. Read more on Wikipedia