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Finland's total area is 337,030 km 2 (130,128 sq mi). Of this area 10% is water, 69% forest, 8% cultivated land and 13% other. Finland is the eighth largest country in Europe after Russia, France, Ukraine, Spain, Sweden, Norway and Germany. As a whole, the shape of Finland's boundaries resembles a figure of a one-armed human.
Finland is: a Nordic country; Location: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Eurasia. Europe. Northern Europe. Nordic countries; Time zone: Eastern European Time , Eastern European Summer Time ; Extreme points of Finland. High: Halti 1,324 m (4,344 ft) Low: Baltic Sea 0 m; Land boundaries: 2,654 km Russia 1,313 km Norway 727 km Sweden 614 km
Finland, [a] officially the Republic of Finland, [b] [c] 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 .
Latitude Locations 90° N North Pole: 75° N: Arctic Ocean; Russia; northern Canada; Greenland: 60° N: Oslo, Norway; Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; major parts of Nordic countries in EU; St. Petersburg, Russia; southern Alaska United States; southern border of the Yukon and the Northwest territories in Canada; Shetland, UK (Scotland)
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. [1] As a continent , Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [ 2 ] Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only, excluding Greece due to the not clearly defined boundaries of its islands between ...
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the ... while the most forested country is Finland (77%). [252] In temperate Europe, ...
As Finland is once again branded the cheeriest country, Tim Bird – who swapped Britain for the Nordic nation in the 1980s – shares the reality of life in ‘Happy Land’
Finland: Nuorgam, Utsjoki, Lapland: 70°05′N Sweden: Treriksröset, Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Lapland: 69°04′N Iceland: Kolbeinsey, Eyjafjarðarsýsla Rifstangi Peninsula (mainland) 67°08′N 66°32′N Arctic Circle: 66°33′39″N Faroe Islands Viðareiði: 62°23′N United Kingdom: Out Stack, Shetland Islands Dunnet Head (mainland)