Top Ten Things Finland is Known For
My first "Top Ten Things (insert country here) Is Known For" list that isn't about one of my home countries, so without further ado, let's start!
Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia; stylized as NOKIA) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, established in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, in the greater Helsinki metropolitan area, but the company's actual roots are in the Tampere region of Pirkanmaa. In 2020, Nokia employed approximately 92,000 people across over 100 countries, did business in more than 130 countries, and reported annual revenues of around €23 billion. Nokia is a public limited company listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. It is the world's 415th-largest company measured by ...read more. Nokia is a type of mobile phone, and it's one thing Finland is known for
Finland Nokia and Sauna --- I think EU is better.. well lots of dunderheads voted for poop where I live.
Yes, Sauna, kinda hard to explain what it is (seriously what's with Bastu in swedish? ) Anyways, it's basically a bath cottage in which it's a high temperature and you take a bath in there, not literally in a bathtub, but it's iconic, it's called Sauna in pretty much all languages as well (except Swedish from what I know, seriously? I get it. Bad + Stuga = Bastu, but it's not the original word)
Finland is indeed known for Saunas. Even Burger King in Finland has a sauna.
Heavy Metal music is a sub-genre of rock music that originated in the late 1960s-70s, featuring more distorted and heavier instrumental work and darker lyrical themes. Heavy Metal broke into mainstream success with bands such as Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Metallica.Other notable Heavy Metal bands include Judas Priest, Anthrax, Testament, System of a Down, Megadeth, Slayer, Pantera, Avenged... read more
Yes, Finland has the biggest number of metal bands per capita in the world!
There are so many metal bands from Finland!
Capial of Finland, interestingly like Sauna, it's called Helsinki is pretty much all languages, except for swedish where it's "Helsingfors"
I know Finland mostly because of Helsinki.
One of the most iconic things about Finland has got to be the Moomintroll, a book series written by Tove Janson, it's about the moomin family who lives in there house and has some cloes friends as well and they go on adventures. It has even been made into movies, now it was a while ago I saw it so correct me if I'm wrong.
This country has tons and tons of lakes it's unreal to count them all! It's not even an exaggarating phrase! There truly is so many lakes in Finland!
Finnish metal band, so iconic!
An interesting archipelago. It belongs to Finland, but it's way closer to Sweden, plus they mostly juts speak swedish on Åland. It's quite complicated yet quite fascinating!
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of 338,455 square kilometres (130,678 sq mi) with a population of 5.5 million. Helsinki is the capital and... read more Finland's national day, enough said
A former Formula One driver. He was world champion in 1998 and 1999 and he was driving for McLaren.
Sisu is kinda like a finnish phrase which means valor, strength and not giving up, from what I have heard, correct me if I'm wrong
Children Of Bodom was a melodic death metal band from Espoo, Finland. Formed in 1993, the final lineup consisted of Alexi Laiho, Janne Wirman, Henkka Seppälä, Jaska Raatikainen and Daniel Freyberg.
The reindeer, also known as the caribou in North America, is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, sub-Arctic, tundra, boreal and mountainous regions of northern Europe, Siberia and North America. This includes both sedentary and migratory populations.I mean, I'm one myself
