Finland
Finland's Geography
History
Finland is in Northen Europe. Its neighbours are the Baltic sea, Sweden, Norway and Russia.
Finland is the Land of thousand lakes, because there are a lot of lakes in Finland. The largest lake is Saimaa and the highest mountan is Haltitunturi, it is 1328m high. Finland has 179 584 islands and a lot of forests too.
The winters are cold and dark and the summers are not warm but sunny.
-In 1156 Erik IX Swedish king became the king of Finnland too.
-In 1809 Alexander I. Russian tsar, occuped Finland but it became independent only on 6th of December 1917 .
-In 1918 Finland had a short civil war.
-In the II World War Finnland fought with the Soviet Union and Germany.
-In 1995 Finland joined The European Union.
People
Culture
There are two languages in Finland: Finnish and Swedish.
93% of Finland are Finn, 6% are Swede and 0,5% are Russian.
Sauna: Sauna is about 2000 years old. In Finland it is a "holy" thing. Everybody goes to sauna once a week. When they sit in the sauna, they do not wear clothes and they eat sausages and drink beer.
Films: they do not dub films and there are subtitles in two languages, in Finnish and in Swedish.
Interesting facts
Nokia: It started in 1865 and the first phone was made in 1987.
Source
Santa Claus's village is in Lapland. It was opened in 1985.
Foods
The national sport is ice-hockey and they won the Word Championship in 1995 and 2011.
http://ili-erasmus.wixsite.com/ili-nyelviskola/finnorszag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland#Geography
http://fiva.nsupdate.info/finland/
http://fu.nytud.hu/mattar/tudode.htm
mämmi
Finnish people like mushroom, potato and fish for example salmon and herring.
Their candy is salmiakki, it is black.
Their specialiti foods are: perunalaatikko, maksalaatikko, lanttulaatikko, silakkalaatikko.
At Easter they eat mämmi and on 1st of May they eat donut.
lanttulaatikko
silakkalaatikko
maksalaatikko
perunalaatikko