europe • FIN
Finland
Location marker · geographic overview
64° N / 26° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Helsinki
- Population
- 5,619,911 2024
- Area
- 338,455 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Finnish, Swedish
- Currency
- euro (EUR)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Finland
Finland (Finnish: Suomi, Swedish: Finland) is a country with vast areas of unspoiled nature speckled with comfortable small towns and cities. Scraped flat by sheets of ice during several ice ages, Finland lacks the dramatic mountains and fjords of its Nordic neighbours but makes up for it with 188,000 lakes and a similar number of islands.
Food & everyday culture
Finnish cuisine is heavily influenced by its neighbours (see Nordic cuisine and Russian cuisine), the main staples being potatoes and bread with various fish and meat dishes on the side. Dairy products are also important, with a wide variety of cheeses, and milk a common beverage even for adults.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-24. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Northern Europe
- Calling code
- +358
- Internet domain
- .fi
- Land border codes
- NOR, SWE, RUS
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .fi. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.