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  Finland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomen tasavalta Swedish: Republiken Finland) is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bounded by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west.
The judicial system of Finland is divided between courts with regular civil and criminal jurisdiction and administrative courts with responsibility for litigation between the individuals and the administrative organs of the state and the communities.
The climate in Southern Finland is a northern temperate climate.
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 Finland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomi, Swedish: Finland) is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bounded by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the southeast and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west, and has land frontiers with Sweden, Norway and Russia and a maritime border with Estonia.
Finland's nearly 700-year association with the Kingdom of Sweden is traditionally connected with the year 1154 and the alleged introduction of Christianity by Sweden's King Erik.
Finland was free to follow her own course and joined the European Union in 1995.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/f/fi/finland_1.html   (2226 words)

  
 Finland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomi; Swedish: Finland) is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bordered by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the southeast and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west.
Finland has land frontiers with Sweden, Norway and Russia and a maritime border with Estonia.
The constitution of Finland and its place in the judicial system are unusual in that there is no constitutional court and the supreme court doesn't have an explicit right to declare a law unconstitutional.
www.yotor.com /wiki/en/fi/Finland.htm   (2241 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Finland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The Republic of Finland (Suomen Tasavalta in Finnish, Republiken Finland in Swedish) is a Nordic country, bound by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the southeast and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west, bordering Sweden, Norway and Russia (sea border with Estonia).
In 1808, Finland was conquered by the armies of Czar Alexander I and thereafter remained an autonomous Grand Duchy in personal union with the Russian Empire until the end of 1917.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Finland was free to follow her own course and joined the European Union in 1995.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Finland   (1315 words)

  
 Finland
The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomen tasavalta, Swedish: Republiken Finland) is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bordered by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west.
The existence of extensive exchange systems is indicated by the spread of asbestos and soapstone from Eastern Finland, and by founds of flint from South Scandinavia and Russia, chisels from Lake Onega, and spearheads from North Scandinavia.
The beginning of Finland's nearly 700-year association with the Kingdom of Sweden is traditionally connected with the year 1154 and the alleged introduction of Christianity by Sweden's King Erik.
www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Finland   (3279 words)

  
 Finland - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
It is bound by Russia to the east, the Gulf of Finland to the south, the Gulf of Bothnia and Sweden to the west and Norway to the north.
Finland is a low lying plateau formed by glaciers, which have scoured the land leaving deposits of gravel, sand and clay.
In 1992 Finland ratified the EEA treaty with the EU and announced it would be seeking accession to the EU by 1995, although the Union announced that Finland would have to adjust their heavy agricultural subsidies in line with the union and that they would have to adopt the EU's envisaged defense system.
www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/finland.htm   (1290 words)

  
 Finland - Gurupedia
Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the southeast and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west, and has land frontiers with Sweden, Norway and Russia and a maritime border with Estonia.
In 1808, Finland was conquered by the armies of
The climate in Southern Finland is a northern
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 Finland Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Finland has a population of only five million people in three hundred thousand square kilometres, making it the 162th populated country in the world.
Finland's development from newly formed agricultural state to a highly successful globalised national entity follows Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye's concept of Realism and Complex Interdependence very closely.
During the Cold War, Finland's policies began to move away from realism, but it is not until the collapse of the Soviet Union that Finland really embraced complex interdependence.
popularityguide.com /encyclopedia/Finland   (3650 words)

  
 FINLAND FACTS AND INFORMATION
The Republic of Finland (Finnish: ''Suomen tasavalta'' Swedish: ''Republiken Finland'') is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bounded by the Baltic_Sea to the southwest, the Gulf_of_Finland to the south and the Gulf_of_Bothnia to the west.
The constitution_of_Finland and its place in the judicial system are unusual in that there is no constitutional court and the supreme court does not have an explicit right to declare a law unconstitutional.
The greater part of the islands are found in southwest, part of the archipelago of the Åland Islands, and along the southern coast in the Gulf_of_Finland.
www.palfacts.com /Finland   (3271 words)

  
 Finland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The Republic of Finland is a Nordic country, bound by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the southeast and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west, bordering Sweden, Norway and Russia (sea border with Estonia).
Treaties signed in 1947 and 1948 with the Soviet Union included obligations and restraints on Finland vis-a-vis the Soviet Union as well as further territorial concessions by Finland (compared to the peace treaty of March 1940).
A quarter of Finland's territory lies above the Arctic Circle, and as a consequence the sun doesn't set for 73 days during summer, and doesn't rise for up to 51 days during winter.
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 Demographics of Finland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Finland numbers some five million inhabitants and has an average population density of 16 inhabitants per square kilometre.
The original inhabitants of Finland are the Lapps - the Sami.
There is a historical explanation for the status of Swedish as an official language: from the 13th to the 19th century Finland was part of the Kingdom of Sweden.
www.city-search.org /de/demographics-of-finland.html   (457 words)

  
 FinnLinks - Finland & Finns Category
Finland was the only nation placed in the top five in all of the tree disciplines that were assessed in PISA.
WEF says that Finland is the most competitive nation in the world and IMD says that Finland is the most competitive nation in Europe and the third most competitive in the world in 2001.
Women in Finland were the first in the world to exercise their democratic right to vote and also stand for election.
www.genealogia.fi /finnlinks/show.php?cid=6   (2620 words)

  
 Demographics : Accounting Resources
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See live article   Demographics of Finland 'Finland\' numbers some five million inhabitants and has an average population density of 17 inhabitants per square kilometre.
for the status of Swedish as an official language: from the 13th to the 19th century Finland was part of the Kingdom of Sweden.
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 FINLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Finland has been a home to thousands since the last ice age, which is a good 10,000 years ago.
As you can see from this graph: the largest percentage, the blue area, of Finn’s are part of the Lutheran Church of Finland, with 88.9% of their population.
Finland was considered a very poor country for much of its history.
students.weber.edu /dallasbroeker   (600 words)

  
 AssortedStuff»Blog Archive » Do We Really Value Education?
The Post this week began a series on that country by trying to figure out why their schools are so good.
If the US had the same demographics as Finland, the US would easily have the same level of success.
If you break down U.S. achievement by whatever demographic you think would be comparable (white suburban males and females?), U.S. achievement still lags behind Finland in many respects.
www.assortedstuff.com /index.php?p=1044   (783 words)

  
 > Finland abcworld.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The independence was approved by Bolshevist Russia, but the following civil wars in Russia, in Finland and activist expeditions (called Heimosodat, Tribal wars, in Finland) for example to White Karelia and to Aunus complicated the relations.
During World War II, Finland fought the Soviet Union twice: in the Winter War of 1939–1940 and participated in Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, known in Finland as the Continuation War of 1941–1944.
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