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Mountain Region Elevation 1. Halti: Lapland/Troms (Norway) 1324 m 2. Ridnitšohkka: Lapland: 1317 m 3. ... List of mountains in Finland. 5 languages ...
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.
The mountains of Finland. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. O. One-thousanders of Finland (4 P) Pages in category "Mountains of Finland ...
Relative to southern Finland Lapland stands out for its thick till cover. [22] [B] The hills and mountains are typically made up of resistant rocks like granite, gneiss, quartzite and amphibolite. [19] The ice sheet that covered Finland intermittently during the Quaternary grew out from the Scandinavian Mountains. [24]
The mountains are relatively high for a range so young and are very steep in places; Galdhøpiggen in South Norway is the highest peak in mainland Northern Europe, at 2,469 metres (8,100 ft); Kebnekaise is the highest peak on the Swedish side, at 2,104 m (6,903 ft), whereas the slope of Halti is the highest point in Finland, at 1,324 m (4,344 ...
The highest mountain whose peak is entirely in Finland is Ridnitšohkka at 1,316 m (4,318 ft), directly adjacent to Halti. There are some 187,888 lakes in Finland larger than 500 square metres and 75,818 islands of over 0,5 km2 area, leading to the denomination "the land of a thousand lakes". [12] Picture of Lake Pielinen in North Karelia.
This is a list of the extreme points of Finland, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location, as well as points of highest and lowest elevation. Northernmost Point — Nuorgam , Utsjoki , Lapland at 70°05′32″N 27°57′20″E / 70.09222°N 27.95556°E / 70.09222; 27.95556 - also the ...
Fells in Finland (including Halti, the highest fell in Finland) In Finnish, the mountains characteristic of the region of Lapland are called tunturi (plural: tunturit), i.e. "fell". A tunturi is a hill high enough that its top is above the tree line and has alpine tundra.