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Finland: Economy, Culture & EU Facts

Finland is located in Northern Europe between Sweden and Russia. It has a developed economy focused on forestry and high-tech industries. Finland joined the European Union in 1995 and uses the euro as currency. With a population of 5.3 million people, Finland has a largely flat landscape and cold climate. Notable industries include wood, metals, and engineering. Places of interest for visitors include seeing the northern lights, exploring Lapland, and visiting the capital city of Helsinki along the Baltic Sea coast.

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Finland: Economy, Culture & EU Facts

Finland is located in Northern Europe between Sweden and Russia. It has a developed economy focused on forestry and high-tech industries. Finland joined the European Union in 1995 and uses the euro as currency. With a population of 5.3 million people, Finland has a largely flat landscape and cold climate. Notable industries include wood, metals, and engineering. Places of interest for visitors include seeing the northern lights, exploring Lapland, and visiting the capital city of Helsinki along the Baltic Sea coast.

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FINLAND

BY:

Oriol Merenciano & Christian Domingo

INDEX
1. MAP OF THE SITUATION OF FINLAND IN EUROPE.
2. SOME PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND TERTIARY ACTIVITIES.
3. THE DATE IN WHICH FINLAND JOINED THE EUROPEAN UNION AND SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE ECONOMY OF THIS
COUNTRY AS WELL.
4. FACT FILE:
4.1. POPULATION.
4.2. CURRENCY.
4.3. GEOGRAPHY.
4.4. CLIMATE AND RELIEF.
5. CULTURE AND TRADITIONS.
6. SOME INTERESTING PLACES TO VISIT IN FINLAND.

SITUATION OF FINLAND IN EUROPE


Finland is at the top of Europe between Sweden
and Russia, its a cold country and its full of
rivers .

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY ACTIVITIES


Finland has a really good economy formed by the felling of trees and really good
technology advances. It has one of the highest rate of developing of Europe in the group
of the industrialized countries.
The most important economic sectors of Finland are the wood, metals, and engineering
sectors.
Telecommunications and electronic sectors are really important as well and they all made
Finland a good economic country and a place where you can find high technological
advances.
It had not a really good economic in the past but with the pass of the time it has become
a really important country with really high incomes.

TERTIARY ACTIVITIES
Infrastructure and transport are really
improved, roads are really long and Finland
has spend lot of money in making all this
stuff which means it is a country with lot of
money and incomes coming from the
tertiary activities.
Bus stations are really common in Finland
and the bus is the most used transport in
all the country, the railroad is really long as
well and its also really used by the people
that goes to work or any activities like that.

FINLAND IN E.U
Finland joined the EU
on 1 JANUARY 1995

GDP: EUR 205 178 million


(2014)

Finland is a
parliamentary republic

Official EU languages :
Finnish, Swedish

FACT FILE
POPULATION:
- 5,3 million people
- 17 inhabitants per km
CONCURRENCY:
- Euro

Area: 303,899 square km.

CLIMATE
In the summer in the north of Ireland the maximum temperatures are
hovering 15 degrees, in the south about 20 degrees.
During the winter the temperatures are 10 degrees under 0 or lower.
Snowing is normal in this country.

INTERESTING TO VISIT
AURORA BOREALIS:
The thrill of witnessing the Aurora
Borealis is a once-in-a-lifetime experience
for many. Some, however, get hooked and
can never get enough of the blazing colors
in the sky.
The further north you go, the greater the
chances of spotting the Aurora Borealis
in Finnish Lapland they can appear on 200
nights a year.

INTERESTING TO VISIT
LAPLAND:
In Finnish folklore, an element
of mystery is associated with
Lapland, the countrys
northernmost province. Lapland
is the home of the one and only
Santa Claus, around-the-clock
sunlight in the summer and
almost guaranteed Northern
Lights every night of the winter.

HELSINKI:
Helsinki, the capital of Finland, is
situated by the Baltic Sea with a
100-kilometre-long shoreline and
around 300 islands. The compact,
vibrant city is both highly cultural
and incredibly relaxing, with
beautiful nature.

GEOGRAPHY
It is bordering the Baltic
Sea, Gulf of Bothnia and
Gulf of Finland, between
Sweden and Russia

Finland is very flat


terrain , is 200 meters
above seal level

FINLAND covers an
area of 338,145 km

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