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Republic of Finland | |
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Anthem: Orthodox Church | |
Demonym(s) | |
Government | Unitary parliamentary republic[1] |
Sauli Niinistö | |
Sanna Marin | |
Legislature | Eduskunta/Riksdagen |
Formation | |
29 March 1809 | |
6 December 1917 | |
Jan – May 1918 | |
1 January 1995 | |
Area | |
• Total | 338,424 km2 (130,666 sq mi) (64th) |
• Water (%) | 10 |
Population | |
• May 2020 estimate | 5,528,737[2] (116th) |
• Density | 16/km2 (41.4/sq mi) (213th) |
GDP (PPP) | 2018 estimate |
• Total | $257 billion[3] (60th) |
• Per capita | $46,559[3] (24th) |
GDP (nominal) | 2018 estimate |
• Total | $277 billion[3] (43rd) |
• Per capita | $50,068[3] (14th) |
Gini (2019) | 26.2[4] low (6th) |
HDI (2018) | 0.925[5] very high (12th) |
Currency | Euro (€) (EUR) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Date format | d.m.yyyy[6] |
Driving side | right |
Calling code | +358 |
ISO 3166 code | FI |
Internet TLD | .fia |
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Finland (
Finland was first inhabited around the end of
In 1809, Finland was annexed by the Russian Empire as the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland. In 1906, Finland became the first European state to grant all adult citizens the right to vote, and the first in the world to give all adult citizens the right to run for public office.[9][10] Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, Finland declared itself independent from the empire. In 1918, the fledgling state was divided by the Finnish Civil War, with the Bolshevik-leaning Red Guards, supported by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, fighting against the White Guard, supported by the German Empire. After a brief attempt to establish a kingdom, the country became a republic. During World War II, Finland fought the Soviet Union in the Winter War and the Continuation War, and lost part of its territory, but maintained independence.
Finland largely remained an
Finland joined the United Nations in 1955 and adopted an official policy of neutrality. The Finno-Soviet Treaty of 1948 gave the Soviet Union some leverage in Finnish domestic politics during the Cold War. Finland joined the OECD in 1969, the NATO Partnership for Peace in 1994,[21] the European Union in 1995, the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council in 1997,[21] and the Eurozone at its inception in 1999.
Finland has a population of approximately 5.5 million, the majority of whom live in the central and south of the country and speak
Finland was first inhabited around the end of
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- ^ a b c d "Report for Selected Countries and Subjects". IMF. 17 October 2018.
- ^ "Gini coefficient of equivalised disposable income - EU-SILC survey". ec.europa.eu. Eurostat. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ^ "Human Development Report 2019" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 10 December 2019. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
- ^ Ajanilmaukset Archived 2017-10-20 at the Wayback Machine Kielikello 2/2006. Institute for the Languages of Finland. Retrieved 2017-10-20
- ISBN 978-952-495-363-4.
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- ^ Parliament of Finland. "History of the Finnish Parliament". eduskunta.fi. Archived from the original on 6 December 2015.
- ^ Finland was the first nation in the world to give all (adult) citizens full suffrage, in other words the right to vote and to run for office, in 1906. New Zealand was the first country in the world to grant all (adult) citizens the right to vote, in 1893. But women did not get the right to run for the New Zealand legislature, until 1919.
- ^ "Finland". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
- ^ "Finland: World Audit Democracy Profile". WorldAudit.org. Archived from the original on 30 October 2013.
- doi:10.1787/20755120-table1. Archived from the original on 30 April 2011. Retrieved 6 March 2011.)
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- ^ "The 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index". Prosperity.com. Archived from the original on 29 October 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
- ^ "Human Capital Report 2015". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
- ^ "Fragile States Index 2016". Fundforpeace.org. Archived from the original on 4 February 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
- ^ Gender Gap Report (PDF). WEF.
- ^ Hetter, Katia (26 March 2019). "This is the world's happiest country in 2019". CNN. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
- ^ Helliwell, John F.; Sachs, Jeffrey; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, eds. (2020). "World Happiness Report 2020" (PDF). New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
- ^ a b Relations with Finland. NATO (13 January 2016)
- ^ "Finland in Figures: Population" (in Finnish). Population Register Centre. 27 March 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
- ^ "Kotisivu - Kuntaliiton Kunnat.net" (in Finnish). Suomen Kuntaliitto. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
- ^ "International Religious Freedom Report 2004". U.S. Department of State. 15 September 2004. Retrieved 22 January 2007.
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