Finland

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  • It can also be very relaxing, exhilarating and enjoyable, and no visit to Finland is complete without sampling the sauna.
  • Most of Finland is covered by thick forests of pine and spruce, and that timber, along with fisheries, mining, shipbuilding and tourism are the major economic contributors.
  • Finland is an advanced industrial economy: the metal, engineering and electronics industries account for 50% of export revenues, the forest products industry for 30%.
  • It is an impressive achievement when one recalls that Finland is the northernmost country in the European Union and one of the few countries in the world where all harbours are ice-bound during normal winters, some of them for as long as six months.
  • Finland is a leading example of the northern European view that a successful, competitive society should provide basic social services to all its citizens at affordable prices or at no cost at all.

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