Has around 188,000 lakes and more saunas than cars.
Finland
Republic of Finland ยท Suomi
Europe
ยท Northern Europe
- ISO codes
- FI ยท FIN
- Density
- 16 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Finnish, Swedish
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Dial code
- +358
- Internet domain
- .fi
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 63.2520ยฐ N, 27.2760ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Finnish
- UN region
- Northern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $269.3B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Finland stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Ten facts about Finland
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 5,520,314 people, the 117th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,391 of everyone alive.
Covers 338,424 kmยฒ, making it the 67th largest country here - about 11.1 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 16 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Helsinki, at 60.18ยฐ N, 24.93ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,115,000.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Norway, Sweden and Russia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Helsinki.
The currency is the Euro (EUR, symbol โฌ).
Has 2 official languages: Finnish and Swedish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Finland.