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Friends, today i am going to share some interesting facts about Finland. The Nordic country Finland is one of the world's most northern countries. This country is called Midnight Sun ka desh and offers visitors beautiful scenery, wonderful outdoor adventures, delicious cuisine, smoking hot and some interesting annual contests and customs.
Finland is the eighth largest country in Europe yet it is the European Union's most sparsely populated land mass. Finland is an egalitarian society, uses gender-neutral words in their language (man for example), and has a tradition of sexual equality. it was the first country to provide equal voting rights to women.
Finland elected its first female prime minister in April 2003, making it the only country in Europe which had both president and prime minister that were female.The Finnish people also love their coffee. The average Finn consumes 12 kg of coffee yearly, the highest in the world. That's twice what the Italians drink and three times as much as Americans consume.
The sauna has a special place in the Finnish lifestyle. It's the norm to have a sauna in your home and share it with family and friends. Almost everyone takes a sauna at least once a week. Every year in Helsinki people celebrate Sauna Day. During this day everyone can go to any private sauna, get naked and whip themselves with a leafy branch .
There are lots of saunas in Helsinki that are mainly for private use.The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) are seen regularly in every season but Summer.
You can even spend the night in an glass igloo to enjoy watching them. In Finland they celebrate annual day for failure. It is a day dedicated to failures, and the reason to celebrate is to understand the fact that success and failure walk together . Every year a small town of Sonkajaervi in Finland hosts the International Wife Carrying Championships. During this competition, husbands have to carry their wives huge bulky masses along the track with various obstacles.The winner gets the amount of beer of his wife's weight.The amount of beer the winner receives is determined by a scale by putting beer on one end of a teeter totter and the "wife's weight" on the other.
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