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2 days ago · Finland, country in northern Europe. Finland is one of the world’s most northern and geographically remote countries and is subject to a severe climate. Nearly two-thirds of Finland is blanketed by thick woodlands. Finland forms a symbolic northern border between western and eastern Europe.
- People
Finland - Arctic, Nordic, Saami: Excavations undertaken in...
- The Language Question
Finland - Language, Dialects, Finnish: The 1919 constitution...
- Finland
Finland - WWII, Occupation, Resistance: After Poland’s...
- Justice, Law, Courts
Finland - Justice, Law, Courts: The Finnish judiciary is...
- Cultural Life
Finland - Culture, Nature, Sámi: Finland is one of the most...
- Religion
Finland - Lutheranism, Orthodoxy, Paganism: Christianity had...
- Economy
Finland - Economy, Trade, Technology: Finland’s economy is...
- The Postwar Period
Finland - Postwar Economy, Arctic Region, EU Member: After...
- Resources and Power
Finland - Resources, Power, Economy: Trees are Finland’s...
- Arctic Circle
Arctic Circle, parallel, or line of latitude around Earth,...
- People
3 days ago · The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian (which alone accounts for approximately 60% of speakers), Finnish, and Estonian. Other languages with speakers above 100,000 are Erzya, Moksha, Mari, Udmurt and Komi spoken in the European parts of the Russian Federation.
4 days ago · Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern human beings belong and the only member of the genus Homo that is not extinct. The name ‘Homo sapiens’ was applied in 1758 by the father of modern biological classification, Carolus Linnaeus.
4 days ago · 1. Why are Finnish signs in two languages? In areas where both Finnish and Swedish speakers reside, Finnish signs are required to be in both languages. The majority language (Finnish) is placed on top, while the minority language (Swedish) is placed on the bottom. 2. Why is Swedish the second official language of Finland?
4 days ago · The human body is the physical substance of the human organism. Characteristic of the vertebrate form, the human body has an internal skeleton with a backbone, and, as with the mammalian form, it has hair and mammary glands.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
17 hours ago · The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani ( / ˈroʊməni / ROH-mə-nee or / ˈrɒməni / ROM-ə-nee) and colloquially known as the Roma ( sg.: Rom ), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin [71] [72] [73] who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle. Linguistic and genetic evidence suggests that the Romani originated in the Indian ...
1 day ago · English language, a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to the Frisian, German, and Dutch languages. It originated in England and is the dominant language of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand.
