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The borders of Finland are the dividing lines between it and the neighbouring countries of Norway, Russia and Sweden. The total length of land borders (incl. rivers) of Finland is 2,563 km / 1593 mi (Norway 709 km / 441 mi, Sweden 545 km / 339 mi, Russia 1309 km / 813 mi).
Finland's total area is 337,030 km 2 (130,128 sq mi). Of this area 10% is water, 69% forest, 8% cultivated land and 13% other. Finland is the eighth largest country in Europe after Russia, France, Ukraine, Spain, Sweden, Norway and Germany. As a whole, the shape of Finland's boundaries resembles a figure of a one-armed human.
Countries by land border length Antarctica and countries in purple are those without any land border. ... Finland (2): 614 km (382 mi) (including 0.5 km ...
This ended in 1920 when the Russian–Finnish Treaty of Tartu in 1920 defined Finland as an independent country and established the border between the two countries. Despite this, Finnish fighters took part in the East Karelian uprising and Soviet–Finnish conflict of 1921–22 .
This is a list of countries and territories by land and maritime borders. For each country or territory, ... Finland: 3 3 4
The four crossings are all in the south-east of Finland and normally the busiest points of travel between the two countries. ... Some 3,000 people use Finland's south-eastern border crossings on a ...
The government in Finland is considering whether to close some crossing points on the country's long border with Russia to prevent people from trying to enter without proper documentation, the ...
Latvian Prime Minister Evika Siliņa told the AP on a visit to Finland this week that the Baltic nation recorded a rise in attempts by migrants to cross the Belarus-Latvia border in September ...