Finland is located in Northern Europe, one of the five Nordic countries, bordering Sweden, Norway and Russia, bordering Finland Bay in the south and Virginia Bay in the west.

The total land area is 338,000 square kilometers, the coastline is 1 100 kilometers, and the inland water area accounts for 10% of the national area. There are about179,000 islands and188,000 lakes, which is known as the "country of thousands of lakes". Finland has a long cold winter and a mild and short summer, and 1/3 of its territory is in the Arctic Circle.

Finland is a highly developed capitalist country and a highly industrialized and liberalized market economy. Finland is a member of the European Union, but its per capita output is much higher than the average level of the EU, which is comparable to that of neighboring Sweden. Citizens enjoy a very high standard of living, and the civil servants of the Finnish government are honest and efficient, and have formed a wide range of knowledge in society.

Transparency International, a non-governmental organization that monitors corruption around the world, released the 20 12 Global Corruption Perception Index report. In 176 countries and regions, Finland ranks first and is the cleanest country. 20 19 February, 20 18 global happiness index was released, and Finland ranked first.

Extended information of Finnish history

At the end of the Ice Age about 9,000 years ago, the ancestors of Finns migrated here from the south and southeast. /kloc-belonged to Sweden in the 0/2nd century, and/kloc-officially became a part of it in the 0/4th century. 1809 After the Russian-Swiss War, it became the Grand Duchy of Russia. 19 17 12.6 independence, 19 19 the Republic of China was founded.

After the Finnish-Soviet War from 1939 to 1940 (Finland called it the "Winter War"), Finland was forced to sign the Finnish-Soviet Peace Treaty and cede territory to the Soviet Union. From 194 1 to 1944, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union, and Finland participated in the war against the Soviet Union (Finland called it the "continuation war"). 1947 In February, Finland, as a defeated country, signed the Paris Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union and other countries.

1948 April, signed a treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance with the Soviet Union. 1955 joining the United Nations. 1995 Joining the European Union. 1 joined the European economic and monetary union (euro zone) in 1999, and the euro officially circulated on1in 2002.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Finland (Finland and China)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of People's Republic of China (PRC)-Overview of Finland