Perustietoa Suomesta

• Finland is a republic and a member of the European Union
• Official languages: Finnish and Swedish (Swedish is the native tongue of 5.5% of Finns)
• Population: c. 5,300,000
• The capital, Helsinki, has a population of c. 560,000
• The country’s total area is 338,145 km², 10% of which is water
• The country’s length from north to south is 1,160 km
• Finland is divided into six provinces: Southern Finland, Western Finland, Eastern Finland, Oulu and Lapland.
• There are 431 municipalities
• Finland borders Russia (in the east), Norway (in the north) and Sweden (in the west)

The website of the Ministry of the Interior contains a ‘Home in Finland’ guide, which has information on accommodation, education and social security for immigrants in the following languages:

English
Finnish
Swedish
French
Russian
Serbo-Croat
Somali
Farsi
Kurdish
Arabic
Albanian
Vietnamese
Dari
Estonian
Plain Language

Useful links

Suomi.fi is a website which offers a wealth of information on public authorities, housing and services in Finland in Finnish, Swedish and English.

Virtual Finland is a website which offers information about Finnish society and culture, also statistical information.

Wikipedia , a multilingual web-based encyclopedia, contains a lot of general information about Finland.

The website of Statistics Finland contains statistical information about Finland in Finnish, Swedish  English, French and German.