The archipelago with the most islands is the Archipelago Sea in Finland.

Although he is sometimes regarded as among the first and most influential architects of Nordic modernism, a closer examination of the historical facts reveals that Aalto ( while a pioneer in Finland ) closely followed and had personal contacts with other pioneers in Sweden, in particular Gunnar Asplund and Sven Markelius.

The membership of nearly 25, 000 women, all singing in English, includes choruses in most of the fifty United States as well as in Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden, Wales and the Netherlands.

Finland experienced its most stable government ( Lipponen I and II ) since independence with a five-party governing coalition, a so called " rainbow government ".

It was however the lumber industry that continued to dominate the city, drawing in a large immigrant labor force, most of whom were Swedish ( two of Cadillac's sister cities are Mölnlycke, Sweden, and Rovaniemi, Finland ).

The interior lake district is the largest geographic region, and it is perhaps what most foreigners think of when they imagine Finland.

The earliest inhabitants of most of the land area that makes up today's Finland and Scandinavia were in all likehood hunter-gatherers whose closest successors in modern terms would probably be the Sami people ( formerly known as the Lapps ).

During the late 19th and 20th century there was significant emigration, particularly from rural areas to Sweden and North America, while most immigrants into Finland itself come from other European countries.

The most important factor determining social mobility in Finland was education.

Finland has excellent communications, and is considered one of the most advanced information societies in the world.

Road transport in Finland is the most popular method of transportation, particularly in rural areas where the railway network does not extend to.

Finland, like most other European countries, has right-hand traffic.

Floorball is most popular in areas where the sport has developed the longest, such as the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.

While there are 54 members of the International Floorball Federation ( IFF ), the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland have finished in most of the coveted 1st, 2nd and 3rd places at the World Floorball Championships.

The European rights to the beer are owned by Heineken International, who brew and distribute a 4 % ABV Foster's in most European countries, including the United Kingdom, Greece, France, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Finland, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine and Ireland.

The civil war remains the most traumatic, controversial and emotionally charged event in the history of modern Finland, and there have even been disputes about how to designate it.

On the right, the vanguard of the war was the Jägers who had been moved to Finland by the end of 1917, and the most active volunteer White Guards of Viipuri province in the southeastern corner of Finland, southwestern Finland, and southern Ostrobothnia.

The most radical Guards and the Finnish Bolsheviks-influential though few in number-favoured annexation of Finland by Russia.

Both armies used child soldiers, mainly between 14 and 17 years of age, the most famous example being Urho Kekkonen who fought for the White Army and later became the longest-serving President of Finland.

One of the most important objectives for both Guards was the seizure of Haapamäki, a railway junction northeast of Tampere which connected both western-eastern and southern-northern Finland.

The fighting in Tampere was purely a civil war — Finn against Finn, " brother rising against brother "— as most of the Russian army had retreated to Russia in March and the German troops had yet to arrive in Finland.

The eastern parts of the Gulf of Finland belong to Russia, and some of Russia's most important oil harbors are located farthest in, near Saint Petersburg ( including Primorsk ).

The most recent update to gun law in Finland occurred in November 2007 when the government pre-empted a new EU directive prohibiting the carrying of firearms by under-18's by removing the ability of 15-to 18-year-olds to carry hunting rifles under parental guidance.

* 1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.

* October 9 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks off the coast of Finland ; Captain Raymund Lourens and his crew escape unharmed.

This film is also known under the name Critical Decision, for the Dutch / Belgian market ; Ratkaisun Hetket ( The Moments of Decision ) for Finland ; Ultime Decision, for France ; Décision au sommet, for French Canadian ; the German title was Einsame Entscheidung and Final Decision in South Korea, Krytyczna decyzja in Poland and Boeing 747 v ohrožení ( Boeing 747 in Danger ) in Czech Republic.

Tobis-Klangfilm has the exclusive rights to provide equipment for: Germany, Danzig, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Holland, the Dutch Indies, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Finland.

* Kicker, the word used in Belgium, Finland Germany and Russia for foosball ( American ), tafelvoetbal ( Dutch ) and Babyfoot ( French ), Futbolin ( Spanish ) or table-football ( official name of this sport )

Gaynes was born in Helsinki, Finland, the son of Iya Grigorievna De Gay ( later known as Lady Iya Abdy ), an artist, and Gerrit Jongejans, a Dutch businessman.

Petergof () or Peterhof ( Dutch / German for " Peter's Court "), known as Petrodvorets () from 1944 to 1997, is a municipal town in Petrodvortsovy District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, located on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland.

Yuzu has also been used in beer, in the Dutch beer called iKi and in Finnish cider called Golden Cap Black, brewed in Finland.

In the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, and Austria, some liver pâtés are shaped as a soft, often spreadable sausage, called leverworst ( Dutch ), májpástétom / májkrém ( Hungarian ), or Leberwurst ( German ).

The first Dutch Antilean delegation to compete was an eleven-man team that arrived at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

While the first Dutch Antilean delegation to the Olympics was sent during the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, the first uniquely Aruban delegation participated two years after the island's secession from the Netherlands Antilles at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Their version peaked at # 1 in Spain, # 3 in the UK Singles Chart, # 3 in the German Official Dance Chart, # 4 in Russia, # 7 in Finland, # 12 in the Dutch Top 40, # 18 in France, # 36 in the Belgium UltraTop 50, # 45 in Australia.

European countries include: Finland, the Netherlands ( in Dutch only ),, Denmark, Norway, and France.

It remained the only Dutch number one to have originated from Finland until 2000, when Freestyler by the Bomfunk MC's reached number one.

Vrouw Maria ( Lady Mary ) was a Dutch wooden two-masted merchant ship carrying a valuable cargo of art objects, captained by Raymund Lourens, that sank on October 9, 1771, in the outer archipelago of the municipality of Nagu, Finland, 11 kilometers south-east of the island of Jurmo.

Buyers included Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Argentina, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Dutch East Indies and China.

The company, which is still wholly owned by the Friberg family, has expanded into Denmark, Finland and Norway and has over 90 shops, often located at train stations or airports.

There are about 170 Sale shops in Finland.

This is the largest of the S Group's supermarket chains, with nearly 400 shops around Finland.

* Prisma – a hypermarket chain with about 50 shops around Finland and the Baltic states, in major cities.

The shopping centre has nearly a hundred shops, banks, and other services on an area of, and is as such the largest shopping centre in the Turku region and second largest in Finland outside the Helsinki region.

It is one of the largest shopping centres in Scandinavia, with approximately 180 shops and 150 offices, ( Ideapark and Itäkeskus in Finland are by comparison bigger since they consist of a single building ).

Presently, there are 723 R-Kiosk shops across Finland.

At that time there were no printing shops in Finland.