Amazing facts about finland

Fact 1:
Finland has over 188000 lakes with 98000 islands.

Fact 2:
Finland have a wife carring championship.

Fact 3:
Mobile company Nokia was founded in Finland.

Fact 4:
Finland is the only country in the world which broadcasts news in Latin.

Fact 5:
There are 1.8 million saunas in Finland.

Fact 6:
Finland has two official languages, Finnish and Swedish.

Fact 7:
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because Donald Duck doesn’t wear pants.

Fact 8:
Santa Claus has his office in the North of Finland.

Fact 9:
Finland is the seventh largest country in Europe, in terms of area.

Fact 10:
The population of Finland is about 5 million and about 1 million of them live in the capital Helsinki.

Fact 11:

Finland is the most sparsely populated country in the European Union, with only 16 inhabitants per km².

Fact 12:

The 120 km Päijänne Water Tunnel is Europe's longest tunnel and the world's second longest.

Fact 13:

Finland was one of the last region of Europe to be Christianised, in the 12th century.

Finland has only been an independent country since 1917. Before that it belonged to Russia or Sweden.

Fact 14:

Finnish athletes have won more Summer Olympic medals per capita than any other nation. As of 2012, Finland had won in total 302 Summer Olympic medals (incluidng 101 gold medals) for a population of only 5.4 million. That is an average of 55.9 medals (18.7 gold medals) per million people. Finland is only second to Norway for the number of Winter Olympic medals per capita (28.8 medals/million).

Fact 14:

Drivers from Finland have won more World Rally championships (14 titles) than any other country, and more Formula One championships compared to their country's population (4 titles for 5 million inhabitants - the next best being Austria with 4 titles for a population of 8 million).

Fact 15:

Finland has been at the top of the worldwide Press Freedom Ranking list every year since the publication of the first index by Reporters Without Borders in 2002.

Fact 16:

According to the 2007 UNICEF report on child well-being in rich countries, Finland has the highest level of academic achievements of all surveyed countries for reading, mathematics and sciences. However, it also has the lowest percentage of children 'liking school a lot' (only 8%).

Fact 17:

Since 2004, Finland has regularly been ranked as 2nd or 3rd best country for the State of the World’s Mothers bySave the Children.

Fact 18:

Finnish language (a.k.a. Suomi) is an non Indo-European language belonging to the Uralic family, along with Estonian and Hungarian.

Fact 19:

The Finns are the world's biggest coffee drinkers, gulping down no less than 12 kg of the black substance annually, twice more than the Italians, three times more than the Americans, and four times more than the Brits.

Fact 20:

Santa Claus (known in Finland as Joulupukki or "Yule Goat") officially resides in a house built right on top of the Arctic circle, near the town of Rovaniemi, in the northern province of Lappland. The Santa Claus Post Office (address: Santa Claus Village, FIN-96930 Arctic Circle) receives some 700,000 letters every year from children from 198 countries (so far).