Finland Description

Activities in Finland - urban life and entertainment, winter sports at ski resorts, eco-friendly woods and lake country of European culture and standard of living, friendly and hospitable people of the country and, of course, is a meeting with himself Santa Claus in Lapland!
Finland - a state in Northern Europe, in the east of the Scandinavian Peninsula. In southern and eastern borders with Russia, in the north - with Norway in the west - with Sweden. South shore is washed by the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia of the Baltic Sea.
The structure also includes Finland's Aland Islands (archipelago Ahvenanmaa) - about 6,5 thousand small, low islands off the south-west coast of the country.
Most of the country is occupied by hilly-moraine plains with numerous rock outcrops and extensive lake-river network (of the country's 187 888 lakes!). Up to 1 / 3 of the entire surface of the country waterlogged. In the north-west of the country reaches the eastern point of the Scandinavian mountains (the highest point - city Hult, 1328 m). The Baltic Sea bass and speckled with numerous islands and skerries.
The total area of Finland - 338 ths. km.
The capital of Helsinki.