On national level Finland elects a head of state — the President of the Republic — and a legislature.

The land on the Arctic Circle is divided among eight countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States ( Alaska ), Canada, Denmark ( Greenland ), and Iceland ( where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey ).

His wife joined him at Toruń in December, but in April 1712 a peremptory ukase ordered him off to the army in Pomerania, and in the autumn of the same year he was forced to accompany his father on a tour of inspection through Finland.

Immediately on his return from Finland, Alexei was dispatched by his father to Staraya Russa and Lake Ladoga to see to the building of new ships.

Originally used in Baker House to signify the Ivy League university tradition, on his return to Finland Aalto used it in a number of key buildings, in particular, in several of the buildings in the new Helsinki University of Technology campus ( starting in 1950 ), Säynatsalo Town Hall ( 1952 ), Helsinki Pensions Institute ( 1954 ), Helsinki House of Culture ( 1958 ), as well as in his own summer house, the so-called Experimental House in Muuratsalo ( 1957 ).

The Baltic Sea might be considered to be bordered on its northern edge by the Gulf of Bothnia, on its northeastern edge by the Gulf of Finland, and on its eastern edge by the Gulf of Riga.

In 2011, the Gulf of Finland was completely frozen on 15 February.

The brown bear's principal range includes parts of Russia, the United States ( mostly in Alaska ), Canada, the Carpathian region ( especially Romania, but also Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland and so on ), the Balkans, Sweden and Finland, where it is the national animal.

Finnish dog tags are also designed to be broken in two ; however, the only text on it is the personal identification number and the letters SF, which stands for Suomi Finland, within a tower stamped atop of the upper half.

* 1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.

* 1941 – World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.

Likewise an almost identical Swedish tale from the 18th century about a golden cross on blue appearing in 1157 during a Swedish battle in Finland.

In Finland, The Evil Dead was later released uncut on DVD by Future Film, and rated K-18.

Near the town of Sillamäe, site of a former uranium enrichment plant, about 1, 200 tons of uranium and about 750 tons of thorium had been dumped into a reservoir on the shore of the Gulf of Finland.

Indeed, Estonians consider themselves a Nordic people rather than Balts, based on their historical ties with Denmark and particularly Finland and Sweden.

Bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, as well as Sweden, Norway, and Russia, Finland is the northernmost country on the European continent.

* Finland is the only European nation on the mainland of the European continent to lie completely north of the 60th parallel

Finland has a civil law system, based on Swedish law, with the judiciary exercising limited powers.

Today, state local presence on mainland Finland is provided by 6 regional administrative agencies ( aluehallintovirasto, avi ), and 15 Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment ( elinkeino -, liikenne-ja ympäristökeskus, ely-keskus ).

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Finland freed itself from the last restrictions imposed on it by the Paris peace treaties of 1947.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Finland unilaterally abrogated the last restrictions imposed on it by the Paris peace treaties of 1947 and the Finno-Soviet Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance.

Finland did not attempt to join NATO, even though post-Soviet countries on the Baltic Sea and elsewhere joined.

In his analysis of Aalto, Giedion gave primacy to qualities that depart from direct functionality, such as mood, atmosphere, intensity of life and even national characteristics, declaring that " Finland is with Aalto wherever he goes ".

In Finnish, parallels are drawn between the figure and the national personification of Finland – Finnish Maiden ( Suomi-neito ) – and the country as a whole can be referrerd in the Finnish language by her name.

Discontent with Russian rule, Finnish national identity, and World War I eventually caused Finland to break away from Russia, taking advantage of the fact that Russia was withdrawing from World War I and a revolution was starting in earnest.

Sweden men's national floorball team | Sweden celebrates their 2006 Men's World Floorball Championships | 2006 World Floorball Championship after defeating Finland men's national floorball team | Finland 7 – 6 in Overtime ( sports ) | Sudden Victory Overtime.

In June 1995, Greenpeace took a trunk of a tree from the forests of the proposed national park of Koitajoki in Ilomantsi, Finland and put it on display at exhibitions held in Austria and Germany.

In the Treaty of Versailles ( 1919 ) the winners imposed relatively hard conditions on Germany and recognised the new states ( such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Yugoslavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ) created in central Europe from the defunct German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires, supposedly out of national self-determination.

The GDP growth rate has since been one of the highest of OECD countries and Finland has topped many indicators of national performance.

It is regarded as the national epic of Finland and is one of the most significant works of Finnish literature.

During the second russification period, at the start of the First World War, the Dowager Empress, travelling by her special train through Finland to Saint Petersburg, expressed her continued disapprobation for the russification of Finland by having an orchestra of a welcoming committee to play the March of the Pori Regiment and the Finnish national anthem " Maamme ", which at the time were under the explicit ban from Franz Albert Seyn, the Governor-General of Finland.

In Finland, the reassembly of the national epic, the Kalevala, inspired paintings and murals in the National Romantic style that substituted there for the international Art Nouveau styles.

Since prehistoric times, long before the concept of national borders existed, the Sami people of Arctic Europe lived and worked in an area that stretches over the regions now known as Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Russian Kola Peninsula.

Halonen was a surprising candidate as she didn't represent many traditional values: She was known as a left-wing social democratic party member, who lived in a domestic partnership, was a single parent and had resigned from the national church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.

By 2010, such parties ( albeit often significant differences between them ) were present in the national parliaments of Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Greece.

* August 1 – The Helsinki Accords, which officially recognize Europe's national borders and respect for human rights, are signed in Finland.

In Finland, in 1995, the Finnish Green Party was the first European Green party to be part of a national Cabinet.

The Finnish national broadcaster, Yleisradio, screens local news, daily from Monday to Friday, for the Southwest Finland ( including the regions of Finland Proper and Satakunta ) residents.

The city has two football teams playing at the top national level, the Veikkausliiga: FC Inter and TPS, which is one of the oldest football clubs in Finland.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Finland, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

At the beginning of the war the governments of White Finland and Red Finland officially opposed acts of terror, but such operational decisions were made at the military level.

In the Netherlands 9. 5 % of young adults ( aged 15 – 34 ) consume soft drugs once a month, comparable to the level of Finland ( 8 %), Latvia ( 9, 7 %) and Norway ( 9. 6 %) and less than in the UK ( 13. 8 %), Germany ( 11, 9 %), Czech Republic ( 19, 3 %), Denmark ( 13, 3 %), Spain ( 18. 8 %), France ( 16, 7 %), Slovakia ( 14, 7 %) and Italy ( 20, 9 %) but higher than in Bulgaria ( 4, 4 %), Sweden ( 4, 8 %), Poland ( 5, 3 %) or Greece ( 3, 2 %).

During the Ice Ages, the sea level of the Atlantic Ocean dropped so much that the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Bothnia, and the Gulf of Finland disappeared, and the countries now surrounding them, including Germany, Poland, the other Baltic countries and Scandinavia, were directly joined by land.

The local club TPS plays at ice hockey's top level in Finland, the SM-liiga, and is one of the most successful clubs in Finland, having won 11 championships, the most recent in the 2009-10 season.

Those countries receiving a score of 1, indicating the highest level of religious freedom, were Estonia, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and the United States.

At the local level, Greens are an important factor in the largest cities of Finland.

The municipalities (; ) represent the local level of administration in Finland and act as the fundamental, self-governing administrative units of the country.

SaiPa is an ice hockey team playing in the highest level in Finland, SM-liiga.

* SM-sarja, the former top level of ice hockey in Finland

Rüştü retired from international level after UEFA Euro 2008 with 120 international caps to his name but was called to play against Spain on 28 March 2009 and 1 April and played a final ' farewell ' match against Finland in May 2012.

Schools up to university level are almost exclusively funded and administered by municipalities of Finland ( local government ).

The percentile equality does not, however, mean that the absolute level of a laudatur student in the advanced mathematics in Finland is equal to that of an 800 SAT student in the USA, due to differences in the mean quality of the population.

Näsijärvi is a lake above sea level, in Pirkanmaa region, Finland.

The U. S. A, Sweden and Finland games saw the pairing line of " Bure-Fedorov-Mogilny ", for the first and only time internationally on the senior level, and was considered " perhaps the best forward line on earth " at the time.

Before 2005, academic universities ( see Education in Finland ) did not make an administrative distinction between studies on the Bachelor's and Master's level, and the Master's level diplomi-insinööri was the first degree to be received.

The fact that Finland have never qualified for a major tournament has also prevented Litmanen from proving his talent at the highest level in international competition.

Ladoga level gradually sank as the River Neva had originated around 3100 – 2400 BP, draining its waters into the gulf of Finland, but Vuoksi still had a significant direct outflow connection to the Bay of Vyborg, possibly as late as in the 16th or 17th century AD.

The SM-liiga formerly had a system of automatic promotion and relegation in place between itself and the Mestis, the second highest level of competition in Finland, but the automatic system was ended in 2000.