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Ääniä: Finland’s Official Soundscape is a free resource for non-commercial use. This might include cultural events, educational purposes, personal enjoyment and other functions. It can be used to create short periods of meditation or restoration during a busy conference program, or perhaps serve as a soundtrack for a yoga session, or simply help provide peace and balance in …

A Finn’s mother tongue is either Finnish, Swedish (5.6% of the population are Swedish speakers) or Saami (some 8,000 native speakers). Finnish belongs to the small Finno-Ugrian language group; outside Finland it is understood (and to some extent spoken) in Estonia.

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The 158-page World Happiness Report and the International Day of Happiness offer a chance to discuss the foundations of happiness and how to nurture it. In more ways than one, this may also provide a counterweight to unhappy news about climate change and war. The report compares the answers to one of the more than 100 questions in the Gallup World Poll.

Newsroom Breaking news from Finland by Yle News - Finland’s English-language news desk

Nov 9, 2020 · While Finns largely trust the public sector, they are also active citizens in a vibrant third sector of volunteer organisations. Such third-sector actors as the women’s movement, trade unions and social and health organisations, to name but a few, have played an important role in shaping Finnish history.

To succeed in a constantly changing world, you have to change as well. Finland has reinvented itself in just one short century – and we’re still at it.

Area: 338,462 km² (131,991 square miles), the fifth-largest country in Western Europe; Greatest length from north to south: 1,157 km (717 miles); Greatest width from east to west: 542 km (336 miles); Capital: Helsinki (1.4 million inhabitants in metropolitan area); Climate: Great contrasts – cold winters and fairly warm summers (2019 extremes: coldest day in Utsjoki …

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