Interesting facts about Finland

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Every corner of Finland has a chance to see the Northern Lights.
In 2008, Finnish chefs took first place in the world in a pizza cooking competition, ahead of the Italians. One of its ingredients was venison.
Finland ranks first in the world in coffee consumption per capita. On average, there are 12 kg of this product per inhabitant annually.
In terms of milk consumption, she also ranks first - about 360-370 liters per person annually, or about 1 liter per day.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the passionate tango dance, which originated in Latin America , has been incredibly popular here . The annual Finnish tango festival Tangomarkkinat attracts a lot of guests from all over the world.

Bus stops here are 2-3 times longer than Russian ones, because Finns always keep the maximum possible distance from other people and hate crowding.
The famous Finnish saunas are a lighter version of the traditional Russian bath. The temperature in them is usually twice lower.
It was in Finland in 1994 that the world's first web browser with a graphical interface was invented, called Erwise. But the authors of the project failed to find funding for its further promotion, and Erwise closed, and Internet Explorer appeared a few months later.
It was here that the Molotov cocktail, the weapon of rebels around the world, was invented. More precisely, Molotov cocktails were originally called "Molotov cocktails" - a reference to Vyacheslav Molotov, a Soviet statesman. This name arose during the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940.
The Finnish capital Helsinki is the northernmost in mainland Europe. But in Europe as a whole, the northernmost capital is Reykjavik, in Iceland.

There are more than 81,000 islands in the coastal waters of Finland with an area of ​​100 m² and above.
If not for the influence of the warm Gulf Stream, the average temperature in Finland would be 6-11 °C lower.
There is not a single public telephone in the entire country.
Every year, the Finnish city of Sonkajärvi hosts the World Wife Transfer Championship. Married men take part in it, who, with their wife in their arms, must overcome the obstacle course in the minimum time.
Finland, contrary to popular myth, does not rank first in the world in terms of the number of lakes, despite the fact that it is often called that way - the country of lakes. In Russia, for example, there are more than 2 million lakes, and in Finland - about 180 thousand.

In the Middle Ages, crusaders from Sweden and Germany repeatedly invaded here . They undertook campaigns in these lands with the aim of converting the local population to Christianity.
The climate in Finland became noticeably cooler at the beginning of the 16th century. This is due to the beginning of the Little Ice Age, which affected the entire planet, but here the cooling was more pronounced.
Exactly 25% of the territory of this country lies beyond the Arctic Circle.
Finland is one of the ten cleanest countries in the world. It is clean here not so much because the garbage is regularly removed, but because the Finns simply do not litter anywhere.
Penalties for traffic violations are not fixed here, they depend on the level of income of violators. The record fine paid by one local rich man for serious speeding was 170,000 euros.

Until the start of the Russian Civil War in 1917, Finland was part of the Russian Empire. Prior to that, it belonged to Sweden for a long time.
In 1918-1919, a puppet state called the Kingdom of Finland existed on the territory of this country.
A 120-kilometer Päijänne water tunnel will be laid from north to south of Finland, supplying water to Helsinki and the surrounding area. This is the second longest tunnel in the world.
The total population of Finland is only about 5.6 million people. This is comparable to the population of St. Petersburg.
This country owns the first archipelago in the world by the number of islands. It is located in the Archipelago Sea (part of the Baltic Sea), and consists of more than 50,000 islands.

Finland on the map