Where is Finland?

Where is Finland Located?

As shown on the given Finland location map that Finland is located in the northern part of Europe continent. Finland map also shows that Finland shares its international boundaries with Russian Federation in the east and Norway and Sweden in the north-west. Besides, it has long coastline in the western and southern side with Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland respectively. It is one on of the Scandinavian countries.

The government type of Finland is a parliamentary republic. The capital city of Finland is Helsinki where central government seats; however, local governments is distributed into 336 municipalities. Finland is the best example of a welfare State built with the perfect balance between the East and the West in global economics and politics. Probably, this is the reason that Finland ranked the best country in the world for the year 2010 reported by Newsweek survey after studying and analyzing health, economic dynamism, education, political environment and quality of life of the country.

The climate type of Finland is a humid and cool semi continental featured with warm summers and freezing winters. The southern region of the country has comparatively mild weather system (where most of the settlement live); whereas in the northern side cold is comparatively longer and remains frozen most of the months.

However, country infrastructure is quite developed and some of the industries in the country has world market for example Nokia. Likewise, country economy is largely depends upon the industries and advanced technology. Some of the country the largest industries are electronics (about 21.6%), machinery, vehicles and other engineered metal products (about 21%), forest industry (about 13%) and chemicals (about 11%).

Country	Finland
Continent	Europe
Where is Located	Finland is a country located in the Northern Europe
Coordinates	60.166667, 24.933333
Capital	Helsinki
Largest City	Helsinki
Neighboring Countries	Norway, Sweden, Russia
Administrative divisions	19 regions
Area	130,596 sq mi
Population	452515
Official Language	Finnish, Swedish
Currency	Euro
ISO Alpha-2 Code	FI
ISO Alpha-3 Code	FIN
ISO Numeric Code	246
GDP	$197.476 billion 2012 estimate
Calling code	358
Time Zone	EET (UTC+2)
Internet TLD	.fi