Finland has over 200,000 lakes.

Two thirds of the Finland is covered by forest.

In Finland the Northern Lights are called ‘revontulet’, which means ‘foxfire’.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear shorts!

There are more than one million saunas in Finland.

The towns of Naantali and Hanko have ‘Sleepyhead Day’ every year on July 27. The laziest people in the two towns are taken from their bed and thrown into the sea to wake them up!

Nokia is a town in the south of Finland - Finns are the biggest users of mobile phones in the world.

In Finland, children open their presents on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day.

Finns don't usually hug a friend they see in public.

The youngest male athlete ever to win an Olympic gold medal was 16-year-old Toni Nieminen of Finland, who won the ski jumping event at the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France.

Finland is officially a bilingual country, and in Helsinki all public signs are in both Finnish and Swedish.

100 years ago, Finnish women used to give birth to their babies in saunas.

All Finnish men serve in the military or the civil service for at least one year.

In the winter Finns use special ice breaking ships to break through the ice in the seas, lakes and harbours so that ships can continue sailing.

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