| | 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. |
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