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Line 1: − The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomi, Suomen tasavalta, Swedish: Republiken Finland (help·info)) is one of the Nordic countries. Situated in Northern Europe, it shares land borders on the Scandinavian Peninsula with Sweden to the west, Russia to the east and Norway to the north while Estonia lies to its south. Finland is bounded by the Baltic Sea with the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west. The Åland Islands, off the south-western coast, are an autonomous, demilitarised administrative province of Finland.+ − + − + − Finland is known as 'the land of lakes and poets' because it has many lakes and has produced a large number of poets. The state capital is Helsinki and the principal exports are hides and salt fish, cellphones, lumber, and DAF motor vehicles.+ − − '''The Second World War''' (1939-1945) − − During World War II, Finland fought the Soviet Union twice: in the Winter War of 1939–1940 and in the Continuation War of 1941–1944 in accordance with Operation Barbarossa in which Germany invaded the Soviet Union. This was followed by the Lapland War of 1944–1945, when Finland forced the Germans out of northern Finland. After the wars there were land mine clearance operations in Karelia and Lapland plus the enormous task of naval mine clearance in the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea during 1944–1950. The mines in Lapland especially slowed down the rebuilding and caused casualties. − − Treaties signed in 1947 and 1948 with the Soviet Union included obligations, restraints, and reparations on Finland vis-à-vis the Soviet Union as well as further Finnish territorial concessions (cf. the Moscow Peace Treaty of 1940). Finland ceded most of Finnish Karelia, Salla, and Petsamo, which amounted to 10% of its land area, 20% of industrial capacity and 400,000 evacuees, mainly women and children. Establishing trade with the Western powers, such as Great Britain, and the reparations to the Soviet Union caused Finland to transform itself from a primarily agrarian economy to an industrialised one. Even after reparations were fulfilled, Finland continued to trade with the Soviet Union in the framework of bilateral trade. Ultimately, the Soviet Union had a national debt to Finland. Russia assumed the debt after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and cleared it in 2006.
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Finland is a country in northeastern [[Europe]], known for its largely [[social democracy|social democratic]] economic system and the injustice this has created. The Finnish [[conservative]] party, the [[National Coalition]] led by [[Sauli Niinistö]], is trying to rescue Finland from future [[poverty]] in the upcoming [[election]]. {{fact}}
Finland has a population of 5,276,571 people spread over more than 330,000 km² (127,000 sq mi) making it one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. Finland is a democratic republic with a semi-presidential system and parliamentarism. Finland was previously part of the Swedish kingdom and later an autonomous Duchy in the Russian Empire, until it declared its independence on December 6, 1917. Finland is eleventh on the 2006 United Nations Human Development Index[3] and ranked as the sixth happiest nation in the world by an independent scientific study.
Finland is known as 'the land of lakes and poets' because it has many lakes and has produced a large number of poets. The state capital is Riga and the principal exports are hides and salt fish, cellphones, lumber, and DAF motor vehicles.
The Republic of Finland is a member state of the European Union and the United Nations. Along with Estonian, Hungarian and Maltese, Finnish is one of the few official languages of the European Union that is not of Indo-European origin.
The Finns have a proud history of fighting [[communism]] and it defeated the [[Soviet Union]] in the [[Second World War]]. This was mainly because the constitution of the country defines the [[Christianity]] as the official [[religion]]. This has been considered by many historians, even by Atheists, as a miracle. {{fact}} http://www.evl.fi/english/ The strong line taken against Communism was known as the Mannerheim Line.
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