Transcript Finland in a nutshell - Šiuolaikinių didaktikų centras

Finland in a nutshell
• Situated in northern Europe
between Russia, Norway and
Sweden
• Capital city: Helsinki
• Parliamentary democracy
with a female president: Tarja
Halonen (first elected in 2000)
• Population about 5,4 million
• 2 official languages: Finnish
and Swedish
• The land of a thousand lakes
(about 188 000 lakes)
• Forest covers about 75 % of
Finland
Finland
Fun ”facts”
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Finns are shy, quiet, punctual and hard-working
Reindeer and polar bears roam free everywhere
Father Xmas comes from Finland and lives in
North Pole
”Everybody” has a sauna (about 2 million saunas in
Finlad)
Finns are the world´s heaviest coffee drinkers
• World ice hockey
champion 2011
• Finnish traditional
vegetable is: SAUSAGE
• In Finland we have this
thing called ”reilu
meininki”
• Finns don´t do small
talk
Finns love peace and quiet
During the warm months finns spend a
lot of time in their cottages swimming,
fishing and of course going to sauna. If
you don´t have a cottage, you can rent
one.
Finnish landscape in Lapland
from a hiking route called
Karhunkierros (=bears trail)
Finns enjoy hiking and being
outdoors, nature is very
important.
Finlands unique nature
• Many tourists come to Finland especially to
see the phenomenon called the Aurora Borealis
(aka the northern lights)
• The land of a
thousand lakes
• Winter is long, dark and cold
but during the short summer we
enjoy the midnight sun that
never sets