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Operating environment
Facts about Finland
- Surface area: 338,000 km2
- Land area: 300,000 km2
- Lakes: 188,000 (area of at least 500 m2)
- Islands: 179,000 (surface area exceeding 100 m2)
- Coastline: 1,100 km
- Public roads: 77,780 km
- Cars: 2.2 million
- Motorcycles: 116,000
- Snowmobiles: 96,400
- Working population: 2,372,000
Population density
- 17 inhabitants / km2 (national average)
- 2 inhabitants / km2 in Lapland
- 705 inhabitants / km2 in the Greater Helsinki Region (Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Kauniainen, Kirkkonummi, Siuntio)
Nearly 20 per cent of Finland’s population and aggregate floor area is concentrated in the Greater Helsinki Region, the area of which represents less than 0.5 per cent of that of the whole country. The population density in this area is thus 46 times the national average.
There are 5,206,000 inhabitants in Finland, 2.0 per cent of whom are of non-Finnish origin.
Native language
- Finnish: 92.14%
- Swedish: 5.58%
- Sami: 0.03%
- Russian: 0.65%
- Other: 1.61%
Religion
- Lutheran: 84.6%
- Orthodox: 1.1%
- Other: 1.1%
- No religious affiliation: 13.1%
Maximum summer temperatures exceed +30 ºC.
In winter, the whole country is covered by snow and the lowest temperatures are between –25 and –40 ºC.
Page modified: 27.6.2006
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