Finland

 

Kingdom of Finland Suomen kuningaskunta (Finnish) Konungariket Finland (Swedish)
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem: Maamme (Finnish) Vårt land (Swedish) (English: "Our Land")
Capital and largest city	Helsinki
Official languages	Finnish Swedish
Religion	Christianity
Demonym(s)	Finnish
Membership	European Community
Government	Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
• King	Karl Adolf
• Prime Minister	Oskari Härkönen
Legislature	Parliament
History
• Autonomy in the Russian Empire	29 March 1809
• Declaration of independence	6 December 1923
• Finnish Civil War	January – July 1923
• Constitution	3 April 1927
GDP (PPP)	estimate
• Total	TBD
GDP (nominal)	estimate
• Total	TBD
Gini	25.7 low
HDI	.940 very high
Time zone	UTC+2 (Eastern European Time)
Date format	dd.mm.yyyy (AD)
Driving side	right
ISO 3166 code	FI

Finland, officially the Kingdom of Finland (Finnish: Suomen kuningaskunta, Swedish: Konungariket Finland), is a country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the west, Russia to the east and south, and Norway to the north, and is defined by the White Sea to the east, the Gulf of Bothnia to the west, and the Gulf of Finland to the south, across which lies Estonia.

Finland largely remained an agrarian country until the 1950s. After Great War II, it rapidly industrialized and developed an advanced economy, while building an extensive welfare state based on the Nordic model; the country soon enjoyed widespread prosperity and a high per capita income. It is a member of the League of Nations, the European Community, and the Northern Treaty Organization.

Government and politics

Military

A Leopard 2 of the Finnish Defence Forces