Definition of finland Finland

/fɪˈnlæˌnd/ - [finland] - Fin•land

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What does finland mean?

WordNet

Noun
finland - republic in northern Europe; achieved independence from Russia in 1917
		Republic of Finland, Suomi
		europe the nations of the European continent collectively; "the Marshall Plan helped Europe recover from World War II"
		common market, ec, eec, european community, european economic community, european union, eu, europe an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members; "he tried to take Britain into the Europen Union"
		karelia a region in Finland and Russia between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea
		capital of finland, finnish capital, helsingfors, helsinki the capital and largest city of Finland; located in southern Finland; a major port and commercial and cultural center
		espoo a city in southern Finland
		tammerfors, tampere an industrial city in south central Finland
		aaland islands, ahvenanmaa, aland islands an archipelago of some 6,000 islands in the Gulf of Bothnia under Finnish control
		maarianhamina, mariehamn a town that is the chief port of the Aland islands

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finland
One of the Nordic countries having borders with Sweden, Norway and Russia.

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finland
A Russian grand duchy; in the middle of the 12th century was conquered by the Swedes, who introduced Christianity. It was several times conquered by the Russians (1714, 1742, and 1808), and restored (1721 and 1743); but in 1809 they retained it by treaty.

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Finland ("Suomi" in Finnish) is a country in Northern Europe and is a member state of the European Union. Finland is one of the Nordic countries. It is also part of Scandinavia.Finland is located between 60th and 70th latitudes of North. Its neighbours are Sweden in west, Norway in north, Russia in east and Estonia at south, beyond the sea called Gulf of Finland. Most of the western and southern Finland is seashore of the Baltic sea.

The capital of Finland is Helsinki. The currency of Finland is the Euro (EUR). It was "markka", FIM, before 2002. The president of Finland is Tarja Halonen. 5.3 million humans live in Finland. Finnish and Swedish are the official languages of Finland. Most people in Finland speak Finnish, but there is about six percent of Finland's population which speak Swedish as their mother tongue, living mostly in the west of Finland and on Åland(Finnish Ahvenanmaa). Finland became independent in 1917.

The most important cities in Finland are Helsinki, Espoo, Tampere, Vantaa, Turku, Oulu, Lahti, Kuopio, Jyväskylä and Pori.

Finland is a highly industrialized First World country. The most important Finnish industrial products are paper, steel products such as machines, and electronics.

Nokia (the mobile company) is originally a company of Finland named after a small town called Nokia.

People and culture.

The people of Finland are called Finns. Most Finns speak Finnish language as their mother tongue. Some 6% of Finns have Swedish language as their mother tongu