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	Mainland Finland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mainland Finland (Manner-Suomi) is a term used for instance in statistics to exclude the autonomous Åland Islands under Finnish sovereignty.
		Mainland Finland is not to be confused with Finland Proper, that is the province adjacent to Åland.
		The term is significant in the context of legal differences between Åland and Mainland Finland, and also in the context of differences of culture, language, history and self-perceived nationhood between the Ålanders and the Finland-Swedes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mainland_Finland (166 words)

	Finland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is situated in northern Europe, bounded by the Baltic Sea with the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west.
		Finland joined the European Union in 1995, where she is an advocate of federalism contrary to the other Nordic countries that are predominantly supportive of confederalism.
		The climate in Southern Finland is a northern temperate climate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finland (4648 words)

	Mainland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mainland is usually the continental part of a region, as opposed to the islands nearby.
		Note that "the mainland" in Northern Ireland is ambiguous between this sense and the preceding one; using the phrase to mean "Great Britain as opposed to Northern Ireland" is considered offensive by many Nationalists.
		Mainland Portugal as opposed to Azores and Madeira Islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mainland (422 words)

	Mainland Finland: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mainland Finland (Manner-Suomi or Fasta Finland) is a term used for instance in statistics statistics quick summary:
		Finland proper, varsinais-suomi or egentliga finland, is a historical province in south western finland....
		Finland-swedish is a variety of swedish languageswedish spoken in finland....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/mainland_finland.htm (505 words)

	Finland Encyclopedia @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Finland has a high standard of living, one of the best educational systems in the world, and is home to many technological phenomena such as Nokia and Linux.
		Turku is the fifth largest city in Finland, with a population of 174 824 (2004), and is located in the south-west of the country at the mouth of the Aura river.
	www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Finland (4308 words)

	Finland at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomi, Swedish: Finland) is a Nordic country, 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).
		In 1808, Finland was conquered by the armies of Russian Emperor Alexander I and thereafter remained an autonomous Grand Duchy in personal union with the Russian Empire until the end of 1917.
		Finland was free to follow her own course and joined the European Union in 1995.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Finland.html (1871 words)

	Finland \| Moving Planets - eXplore the Universe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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 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 southeast and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west.
		Finland's nearly 700-year association with the Kingdom of Sweden is usually said to began in 1154 with the introduction of Christianity by Sweden's King Erik the holy who came escorted by a group of armed men and Bishop Henry to Finland-proper.
	www.movingplanets.com /world/countries/finland (316 words)

	ipedia.com: Finland Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Republic of 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 f...
		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.
	www.ipedia.com /finland_1.html (2287 words)

	Swedish language - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Finland (with Finnish), Åland (unilingually), and the European Union.
		Swedish is the sole official language of Åland, an autonomous province under the sovereignty of Finland, where 95% of the 26,000 inhabitants speak Swedish as a first language.
		Finland was under Swedish control from the mid 14th century until the loss of the Finnish territories to Russia in 1809.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Swedish_language (5900 words)

	Swedish in Finland — Virtual Finland
		The Swedish area in Finland comprises Uusimaa, Turunmaa and Ostrobothnia (coastal areas of mainland Finland) and the Åland Islands.
		The area of Finland settled by Swedish speakers was geographically dispersed and limited to coastal areas.
		In 1863, Finnish was given an equal position with Swedish as the official language of Finland, and a legislative reform in 1906 gave Finnish a position in practice which corresponded to the dominant numbers of Finnish speakers in the country’s population.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/finnswedes.html (2827 words)

	Swedish language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Swedish is the language of the Åland Islands an autonomous province under the sovereignty of Finland.
		In Mainland Finland however Swedish is mother tongue for only a minority of the or about six percent.
		Swedish is the official language of the small autonomous territory of the Åland Islands under sovereignty of Finland protected by international treaties and Finnish In contrast to the mainland of Finland Åland Islands are monolingual - Finnish has no official status and is mandatory in schools.
	www.freeglossary.com /Swedish_(language) (2283 words)

	Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Swedish is the mother tongue for about 265,000 persons in Mainland Finland and 25,000 on Åland, or 5.55% of the total population according to official statistics for 2003 [1] (http://www.stat.fi/tk/tp/tasku/taskue_vaesto.html).
		In the light of repeated losses of importance and influence of Finland-Swedish in Finland, it was natural for the minority to identify Sweden as the mother country capable of intervening against anti-Swedish policies by the government of Finland.
		Finland being a bilingual country, according to its constitution, means that citizens of the Finland-Swedish minority have the right to communicate with authorities in their mother tongue.
	www.info-pedia.net /about/finland (1084 words)

	Aland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During the Civil War in Finland, 1918, Swedish troops intervened as a peacekeeping force between the Russian troops stationed on the islands, and White and Red troops arriving over the ice from Finland.
		A petition for secession from Finland was signed by 96.2% of Åland's native adults (those working or living abroad excluded, although serious questions are later raised regarding this extraordinary high figure).
		Thus Finland is under an obligation to ensure the residents of the Åland Islands a right to maintain the Swedish language, as well as their own culture and local traditions.
	www.glebbeek-internet.com /engels/aland.htm (1092 words)

	Travel Guide - Finland @ Cheap Travel Deals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mainland Scandinavia's most culturally isolated and least understood country, Finland has been independent only since 1917, having been ruled for hundreds of years by first the Swedes and then the Tsarist Russians.
		Finland is mostly flat and punctuated by huge forests and lakes, but has wide regional variations.
		About a third of Finland is consumed by the Lake Region, a huge area of bays, inlets and islands, interspersed with dense forests.
	www.femalefirst.co.uk /travel/1552004.htm (760 words)

	Trade with mainland Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When goods are imported and exported between the Åland Islands and mainland Finland, the tax return should be submitted to a tax border customs office, i.e.
		Double taxation is eliminated when goods are imported from elsewhere in Finland, or from other Member States, to the Åland Islands province, or from the province to somewhere else in Finland.
		If goods are sold from the Åland Islands to mainland Finland, the seller acts as representative for the consignee and pays the VAT for him/her.
	www.tulli.fi /resources/tekstiversio.jsp?pageoid=18073 (1979 words)

	Swedish People's Party : RKP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the Parliament of Finland the representative for Åland is usually included in SFP's party-group, regardless of his/her party affiliation.
		The SFP has as its main raison d'être the protection and strengthening of the position of Swedish in Finland.
		The party's relation to Eurosceptics and issues of the European Union is complicated, partly due to the SFP's historical ties to Finland's wealthiest families.
	www.termsdefined.net /rk/rkp.html (535 words)

	Police investigates PAF in Finland - Wikinews
		In Mainland Finland, the state-owned gambling institution RAY ("Raha-automaattiyhdistys" in Finnish) holds a legal monopoly of gambling.
		Finland's interior minister Kari Rajamäki said that PAF has continued its gambling in Finland and ignored its last sentence.
		Åland is an autonomous part of Finland and as such subject to certain privileges, one of which is the existence of PAF in the first place.
	en.wikinews.org /wiki/Police_investigates_PAF_in_Finland (307 words)

	YLE - Finnish Broadcasting Company
		The digital network is now covering the whole of mainland Finland, and the network reaches 99.9 per cent of the households.
		Finland will go over completely to digital television broadcasts on 31st August 2007.
		One third of the households in Finland have digital television sets, and as much as 45 per cent of those which are connected in aerial feed antenna network.
	www.yle.fi /fbc/press_digicovers080805.shtml (133 words)

	Major Minority — SixDegrees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1808, Finland was conquered by Russia and became an autonomous Grand Duchy, although the administrative language remained in Swedish.
		Whether the Swedish language in Finland will drown without political help is an argument in itself, but Eva is determined to fight for some kind of Swedish-speaking cultural education in the Swedish-speaking schools, “One of our basic political objectives is education and Swedish-speaking services.
		The Åland Islands (Landskapet Åland in Swedish and Avenanmaan maakunta in Finnish) are an autonomous, demilitarised, monolingually Swedish-speaking administrative province of Finland.
	www.6d.fi /cover_story/major_minority (2567 words)

	University of Helsinki
		Niemelä, J., Haila, Y. and Ranta, E. 1986: Spatial heterogeneity of carabid beetle dispersion in uniform forests on the Åland Islands, SW Finland.
		Niemelä, J. 1988: Habitat occupancy of carabid beetles on small islands and the adjacent Åland mainland, SW Finland.
		Niemelä, J. and Halme, E. 1992: Habitat associations of carabid beetles in fields and forests on the Åland Islands, SW Finland.
	www.helsinki.fi /biosci/jariniemela/publications/scientificjournals.htm (1847 words)

	Import of EU goods via mainland Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When goods are imported to the Åland Islands from another EU Member State via mainland Finland, the import is partly classified as EU internal trade and partly as tax border trade.
		When goods are imported to the Åland Islands from another EU Member State via mainland Finland, the first stage (from an EU State to mainland Finland) is EU internal trade.
		In the next stage, when the goods are transported from mainland Finland to the Åland Islands, conventional tax border procedures are applied.
	www.tulli.fi /resources/tekstiversio.jsp?pageoid=18074 (209 words)

	NewsRoom Finland
		Finland's Supreme Court has found PAF's gaming website in breach of the Lotteries Act as the service can be accessed on the mainland where PAF is not licensed to operate.
		PAF does not think its actions are against the court ruling and is shocked by the interior ministry's decision to report the matter to the police.
		The Supreme Court feels PAF has made mainland Finland part of its operations by advertising there, even though it does not have the right to operate outside of the Åland Islands.
	virtual.finland.fi /stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=11111&group=Business (529 words)

	Everything about Oulunkylä (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Oulunkylä (Swedish Åggelby) is a suburb of Helsinki, the capital of Finland, located 6 km from the center of the city.
		Swedish as spoken in Finland is regulated by the "Swedish Department" of the "Research Institute for the Languages of Finland".
		Finland has since then been a bilingual country with a Swedish-speaking minority (5.08% of Mainland Finland's population in 2003), speaking Finland-Swedish, living mostly in the coastal areas of southern, south-western, and western Finland.
	wikimiki.org /991374 (5210 words)

	The oldest church in mainland Finland : Journal : Nomadig
		The oldest church in mainland Finland : Journal : Nomadig
		Turku cathedral is claimed to be the oldest church in mainland Finland.
		The church is also the main church of Finnish Lutheran Church and national shrine of the country.
	nomadig.com /journal/2005/08/06/the-oldest-church-in-mainland-finland (196 words)

	Mobile Monday - Breaking News: Finland OKs 3G network sharing
		On 15 April 2004, the Government decided to ease the terms of UMTS licences in mainland Finland.
		In mainland Finland, licences to provide UMTS networks are held by Radiolinja Origo Oy, Sonera Mobile Networks Oy, Suomen 3G Oy and Finnet Networks Ltd.
		The need to amend the licences arose from the development of the European markets and of third generation technology usage, which have been slower than expected, as well as of changes in the licence ownership bases after 1999.
	www.mobilemonday.net /mm/story.php?id=3596 (274 words)

	Pimsleur languages
		It is mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia and by many overseas Chinese of Cantonese origin worldwide.
		Standard Mandarin is officially known in mainland China as Putonghua, in Taiwan and Hong Kong as Guoyu (literally "national language"), and in Malaysia and Singapore as Huayu (literally "the Chinese language").
		Swahili is spoken in Spoken in Tanzania, Burundi, Kenya, Mayotte, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa and Uganda.
	pimsleur.english-test.net /pimsleur-languages.html (5947 words)

	Statistics Finland - - First registrations of motor vehicles
		Statistics Finland’s statistics on motor vehicles are based on the vehicle traffic register of the Vehicle Administration Centre (AKE), which contains data on all road transport vehicles liable for registration on Mainland Finland.
		Ålands Motorfordonsbyrå supplies to Statistics Finland annual statistics on first registrations on the Åland Islands, and these data are added to the long time series on first registrations.
		Vehicles in the separate register of the defence forces are no included in Statistics Finland’s statistics on motor vehicles.
	www.stat.fi /meta/til/merek_en.html (243 words)

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