Globe Trotter in Finland - [Update] Eukonkanto, Suopotkupallo, Interesting Facts

Day 3,136, 22:06 • Published in Finland North Korea • by Silexu



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A. Beauty of Finland
"What’s common between “wellie wanging”, snow swimming and swamp soccer? Finland of course!
If you’re looking for some new exotic travel experiences, Finland is the place to be! We’ve got it all, the midnight sun, the beautiful women and not to forget saunas and thousands of lakes!"
Source: 10 Reasons Why You Want To Travel To Finland
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One picture is worth a thousand words


Helsinki Cathedral


The Council of State by the square of the Senate in Helsinki


Helsinki harbor


Tampere


Tampere again


Beautiful street in Porvoo


Picturesque Wooden Houses in Porvoo


Christmas (Joulu) in Porvoo


Summer Cottage Culture


Summer sun never sets


Northern Lights


Forest in Tampere


Ukko Koli


Turku Archipelago


Hiittenkari


Sunset in Finland


Travelling in Finland


Wildlife


Huskies in Oulanka National Park


Santa Claus and husky dogs in Lapland


Ruka ski resort

Presenting some enjoyed sports in Finland


Eurokanto - wife carrying competition


Swamp Soccer

... the food ...

Sausages


Puddings

... and national costumes

Traditional Sami costumes in Lapland


B. Interesting facts about Finland
Sources:
Interesting facts about Finland
Very interesting: 10 strange historical facts about Finland

- Finnish athletes have won more Summer Olympic medals per capita than any other nation. As of 2012, Finland had won in total 302 Summer Olympic medals (incluidng 101 gold medals) for a population of only 5.4 million. That is an average of 55.9 medals (18.7 gold medals) per million people. Finland is only second to Norway for the number of Winter Olympic medals per capita (28.8 medals/million).
- Finnish language (a.k.a. Suomi) is an non Indo-European language belonging to the Uralic family, along with Estonian and Hungarian.
- Santa Claus (known in Finland as Joulupukki or "Yule Goat") officially resides in a house built right on top of the Arctic circle, near the town of Rovaniemi, in the northern province of Lappland. The Santa Claus Post Office (address: Santa Claus Village, FIN-96930 Arctic Circle) receives some 700,000 letters every year from children from 198 countries (so far).
- According to the World Audit study, Finland is the least corrupt and most democratic country in the world as of 2012.
- Nokia Corporation (a Finnish company) was the world's largest manufacturer of mobile telephones from 1998 to 2012, with a global market share of over 35% between 2006 and 2009.
- Finnish women were the first in Europe to get the vote, and one of their initial acts was to pass temperance laws keeping booze away from their menfolk. The result was Kieltolaki (prohibition), a ban on alcohol that was in force from 1919 to 1932.
- Bored with small-town life in remote Kajaani in the 1800s, the Finnish doctor Elias Lönnrot made several trips into the wilds of Karelia to collect folktales from local storytellers. He then attempted to reconstruct the myths that Finland might have had before the coming of Christianity.
The resulting book, the national myth of The Kalevala, kicked off a revolution in Finnish arts and crafts, and informs much of the imagery of late 19th-century Finnish culture. It inspired JRR Tolkien to write a similar ‘national myth’ for the English. In the process, he based Quenya, the language of High Elvish, on Finnish.

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