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Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, opposite Estonia. Finland has a population of 5.6 million, the majority being ethnic Finns. Its capital and largest city is Helsinki. The official languages are Finnish and Swedish, the mother tongues of 84.1 percent and 5.1 percent of the population, respectively. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to boreal in the north. Its land is predominantly covered by boreal forest, with over 180,000 recorded lakes.

Finland was first settled around 9000 BC after the last Ice Age. During the Stone Age, various cultures emerged, distinguished by different styles of ceramics. The Bronze Age and Iron Ages were marked by contacts with other cultures in Fennoscandia and the Baltic region. From the late 13th century, Finland became part of Sweden following the Northern Crusades. In 1809, as a result of the Finnish War, Finland was captured from Sweden and became an autonomous grand duchy within the Russian Empire. During this period, Finnish art flourished and an independence movement gradually developed. (Full article...)

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Human. :II: Nature. (stylized as HVMAN. :||: NATVRE.) is the ninth studio album by the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released on 10 April 2020 by Nuclear Blast. It is the band's first double album, with the second CD complete with orchestral music rather than metal.

Following the departure of original drummer Jukka Nevalainen the previous year, this is the first album to feature Kai Hahto as an official band member, although he had already acted as Nevalainen's replacement on the band's previous album, Endless Forms Most Beautiful. It is the sixth and final album to feature bassist/vocalist Marko Hietala before his departure in January 2021. (Full article...)

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Snow-covered landscape in Isokuru, Pyhä-Luosto National Park.

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... that Matti Lehtinen, a baritone of the Finnish National Opera and professor of singing at the Sibelius Academy, was the voice of God at age 93?
... that the Grand Prix of Finland was held again in 2022 after Russia was banned from hosting international figure skating competitions?
... that the 1972 Finnish film The Sheep Eaters gathered more than a million viewers opposite the 1975 Ice Hockey World Championships match between Finland and the Soviet Union?
... that Finnish-American model Selene Mahri married three millionaires and is credited with inventing the saying "Marriage is a question of give and take. You give. I take"?
... that Finland won its first Olympic ice hockey medal under the leadership of Kai Hietarinta?
... that Kimmo Leinonen helped establish both the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame and the IIHF Hall of Fame?

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...that the prototypes for the WW II German U-boat fleet (Type II pictured) were designed by a Dutch company and built in Finland at the Crichton-Vulcan shipyard?
...that while repelling Soviet advances across the frozen Lake Suvanto, Finland managed to capture 12 anti-tank guns, 140 machine guns, 200 light machine guns and 1500 rifles in the Battle of Kelja in 1939?
...that Major Carl Mothander, the leader of Swedish volunteers in the Estonian War of Independence, later wrote books on Estonian politics that were banned in Finland?
...that the Korpela movement was a short-lived cult during the 1930s in Northern Sweden and Finland whose controversial sexual rituals eventually led to the arrest of 60 followers?
...that in 1745, Daniel Juslenius, a Finnish Fennoman, finished the first formal Finnish dictionary?

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A scene of the Kauhajoki vocational college campus a few hours after the shooting

The Kauhajoki school shooting occurred on 23 September 2008 at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences (SeAMK) in Kauhajoki, Finland. The gunman, 22-year-old student Matti Juhani Saari, shot and killed ten people with a Walther P22 Target semi-automatic pistol, before shooting himself in the head. He died a few hours later at Tampere University Hospital. One woman was injured but remained in stable condition.

The shooting took place at the Kauhajoki School of Hospitality, owned by the Seinäjoki Municipal Federation of Education. The facilities and campus were shared between SeAMK and the Seinäjoki Vocational Education Centre – Sedu. Saari was a second-year student in a Hospitality Management undergraduate degree programme. The incident was the second school shooting in less than a year in Finland, the other being the Jokela school shooting in November 2007, in which nine people including the gunman died. The first similar incident in the country's history was the Raumanmeri school shooting in Rauma in 1989, leaving two people dead. (Full article...)

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Image 1The first government of independent Finland. P. E. Svinhufvud, the first Prime Minister of Finland, sitting at the head of the table. (from History of Finland)
Image 2Finland Ostrobothnia regiment uniforms in 1705 (from History of Finland)
Image 3Jussipaita (transl. Jussi sweater); a traditional sweater from the Finnish region of Southern Ostrobothnia (from Culture of Finland)
Image 4Signing the Helsinki Accords are the West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, East Germany's leader Erich Honecker, US president Gerald Ford and the Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky (from History of Finland)
Image 5A peasant girl and a woman in traditional dress from Ruokolahti, eastern Finland, as depicted by Severin Falkman in 1882 (from Culture of Finland)
Image 6(1809 Diet of Porvoo) The sovereign's pledge, printed in Finnish (from History of Finland)
Image 7Apocalyptica's Perttu Kivilaakso playing metal music live (from Culture of Finland)
Image 8Janne Ahonen is considered one of the best and most successful currently active ski jumpers. (from Culture of Finland)
Image 9Portrait of Finnish poet Elias Lönnrot who wrote "the Kalevala" (1802 - 1884) (from History of Finland)
Image 10Map of Finnish areas ceded to the Soviet Union in 1944, after the Continuation War (from History of Finland)
Image 11Erkki Karu, one of the pioneers of the Finnish cinema, with cinematographer Eino Kari in 1927 (from Culture of Finland)
Image 12A group of Finnish soldiers operating a Bofors gun during the Continuation War in 1943 (from History of Finland)
Image 13Karjalanpiirakka, a traditional Finnish pastry (from Culture of Finland)
Image 14An old drawing of the city of Turku in the 18th century (from History of Finland)
Image 15Marshal of Finland Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim visit in Germany, 1942 (from History of Finland)
Image 16Three Finnish Romani women in Helsinki, Finland, in 1930s (from Culture of Finland)
Image 17The ruins of Vammala burned by the Reds, during the Civil war (from History of Finland)
Image 18Battle of Gangut (Hanko) was part of the Great Northern War during 1700–1721. (from History of Finland)
Image 19Turku Cathedral and its surroundings from 1814 (from History of Finland)
Image 202007 Formula One World Champion Kimi Räikkönen celebrating victory at the 2007 Brazilian Grand Prix (from Culture of Finland)
Image 21This 1825 map of the Grand Duchy of Finland is from a larger work, geographical atlas of the Russian Empire. (from History of Finland)
Image 22Linus Torvalds, a famous Fennoswede software engineer, best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel (from Culture of Finland)
Image 23Pekka Halonen's painting "against persecutors" from 1896 depicts the warfare of the ancient Finns. (from History of Finland)
Image 24Captain Aarne Juutilainen at the front at Kollaa during the Winter War (from History of Finland)
Image 25Jean Sibelius at work in his study (from History of Finland)
Image 26Students on Helsinki's Esplanadi wearing their caps on Vappu (from Culture of Finland)
Image 27The area controlled by Finland at its largest, in 1942 (from History of Finland)
Image 28The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), a significant figure in the history of classical music (from Culture of Finland)
Image 29Women in sauna with Vihtas
Image 30Wehrmacht soldiers with a local Sámi reindeer herder, Lappland, Sodankylä, Finland 1942 (from History of Finland)
Image 31Paavo Nurmi at the 1920 Summer Olympics (from Culture of Finland)
Image 32Grand Duchy of Finland, 75 kopek assignat (1824) (from History of Finland)
Image 33In 2011 figure skater Kiira Korpi was ranked 4th in the world. (from Culture of Finland)
Image 34Lapua Movement supporters beating the "red officer" Eino Nieminen in front of the Vaasa courthouse during the 4 June 1930 riot. (from History of Finland)
Image 35President K. J. Ståhlberg in his office in 1919 (from History of Finland)
Image 36A reconstruction of a 12th-century Perniö costume (from History of Finland)
Image 37Prehistoric red ochre painted rock art of moose, human figures, and boats in Astuvansalmi, Finland, from ca. 3800–2200 BC (from Culture of Finland)
Image 38Kalmar Union in 1400s (from History of Finland)
Image 39Imagery collage of Birger Jarl conquering Häme and the construction of Häme Castle (from History of Finland)
Image 40Painting of Lalli killing Henry. Painting by C. A. Ekman. (from History of Finland)
Image 41In the middle is the patron saint of Finland, Saint Henry, on the right side of him is Bishop Konrad Bitz and on the left is Dean Magnus Stjernkors; from Missale Aboense (1488) (from History of Finland)
Image 42Sámi family in traditional costumes from Finland. (from Culture of Finland)
Image 43Homann's map of the Scandinavian Peninsula and Fennoscandia with their surrounding territories: northern Germany, northern Poland, the Baltic region, Livonia, Belarus, and parts of Northwest Russia. Johann Baptist Homann (1664–1724) was a German geographer and cartographer; map dated around 1730. (from History of Finland)
Image 44Women dressed in Finnish folk costumes (from Culture of Finland)
Image 45Memorial of the Mannerheim Cross Knights of Parikkala, Finland (from History of Finland)
Image 46Winter War Monument in Suomussalmi, Kainuu, Finland (from History of Finland)
Image 47In the sauna, by Pekka Halonen, 1925 (from Culture of Finland)
Image 48Ancylus Lake covered major part of Finland (7,500–6,000 BC) (from History of Finland)
Image 49Kastelli Giant's Church in Pattijoki by Pöljä culture (from History of Finland)
Image 50A view of Pohjoisesplanadi in the center of Helsinki in 1891 (from History of Finland)
Image 51Kreeta Haapasalo Playing the Kantele in a Peasant Cottage (1868), by Robert Wilhelm Ekman (from History of Finland)
Image 52Helsinki Accords Treaty (from History of Finland)
Image 53Pieces of the Antrea Net (8,300 BC), the oldest-known fishing net in the world. (from History of Finland)
Image 54The public education system founded during earlier Swedish rule resulted the literacy of Grand Duchy of Finland being higher than its host country Russian Empire (map of 1897 census literacy data) (from History of Finland)
Image 55Eero Järnefelt, Burning the Brushwood, 1893 (from History of Finland)
Image 56S/S Urania in Hanko harbor in 1893, with 509 emigrants on board on their way to America (from History of Finland)
Image 57A triptych by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, depicting the Aino Story of Kalevala on three panes (from Culture of Finland)
Image 58People gathered in the Senate Square for a demonstration against the February Manifesto in March 1899. (from History of Finland)
Image 59Finnish folk dancers in a 1907 postcard sent from Mustamäki, Finland (from Culture of Finland)
Image 60The decision of the Soviet of the People's Comissars' to recognise Finnish independence, signed by Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Grigory Petrovsky, Joseph Stalin, Isaac Steinberg, Vladimir Karelin, and Alexander Schlichter (from History of Finland)
Image 61Midsummer bonfire (kokko) in Mäntsälä (from Culture of Finland)
Image 62President Urho Kekkonen's funeral procession in 1986 (from History of Finland)
Image 63Identification document and tag of a Finnish war child (from History of Finland)
Image 64Alvar Aalto, Viipuri Library (1927–35) (from Culture of Finland)
Image 65Badge of the Finnish White/Civil Guard (from History of Finland)
Image 66Stone Age dwelling named Kierikki 5000–3000 BC (from History of Finland)
Image 67Stone Age stone axe engraved with human face found from Kiuruvesi. (from History of Finland)
Image 68Mikael Agricola hands over the Finnish Translation of the New Testament to King Gustav Wasa. (from History of Finland)
Image 69Northern Europe in 814 (from History of Finland)
Image 70The part of Finland controlled by the Reds at its largest in February–March 1918 (from History of Finland)
Image 71Finnish Guards' Rifle Battalion, 1850s (from History of Finland)
Image 72A smoke sauna (savusauna) in Enonkoski (from Culture of Finland)
Image 73A summer cottage (mökki) on a lake island (from Culture of Finland)
Image 74Battle of Valkeala was part of the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790). (from History of Finland)
Image 75The Swedish empire at its largest. Most of present-day Finland was part of Sweden proper, rike, shown in dark green. (from History of Finland)
Image 76The Finno-Soviet Treaty (from History of Finland)
Image 77The area of Finland in the years 1920–1940. The 1935 county and municipality division on the map. (from History of Finland)

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19 August 2025 –: Eemeli Peltonen, a 30-year-old Finnish member of parliament, dies by suicide inside the Parliament House in Helsinki. (Yle)
3 July 2025 –: Four people are injured in a mass stabbing attack by a man near a shopping mall in Tampere, Finland. (Reuters)
19 June 2025 –: The Finnish Parliament votes 155–18 to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty, which bans the use of anti-personnel mines, citing the threat Russia poses to its national security. (Reuters) (Helsingin Sanomat)
21 May 2025 – Foreign relations of Israel: More than a dozen governments condemn the Israeli military firing in the direction of a diplomatic delegation with representatives from 31 countries including Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, the European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay. (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera)
20 May 2025 –: Three students are injured in a mass stabbing attack at a school in Pirkkala, Pirkanmaa, Finland. The suspect, a 16-year-old, released a manifesto saying his target was women. (Yle)
17 May 2025 –: Five people, including Estonian businessmen Oleg Sõnajalg and Priit Jaagant, are killed when two Robinson R44 civilian helicopters en route to Piikajärvi Airfield collide mid-air and crash into the ground in a forested area near Eura, Satakunta, Finland. (Eesti Rahvusringhääling)

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