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Finnish Immigration Service (abbreviated Migri, [1] Swedish: Migrationsverket, Finnish: Maahanmuuttovirasto) is an agency under the Ministry of the Interior that implements Finland's immigration policy and provides information services to support political decision-making as well as national and international cooperation. [2]
Finland's first immigrants arrived in the years 1917–1922, thousands of Russians escaped to Finland as a result of the Russian Revolution. Many of them died in the Finnish Civil War . In the beginning of 1919, statistics showed there were 15,457 Russians in Finland, however the actual number was likely higher.
The official languages are Finnish and Swedish; 84.9 percent of the population speak the first as their mother tongue and 5.1 percent the latter. [1] [11] Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to boreal in the north. The land cover is predominantly boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. [12] [13]
Finland closed all crossings on its 1,340 km (830 mile) border with Russia late last year amid a growing number of arrivals who lacked valid documents to enter the European Union. Helsinki accuses ...
The flag of Finland Location of Finland. Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, opposite Estonia. Finland covers a total area of 338,145 square ...
A Finnish passport. Visa requirements for Finnish citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Finland.. As of December 2024, Finnish citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 192 countries and territories, ranking the Finnish passport 2nd in the world, tied with passports from France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Japan ...
By article count, it is the 27th largest Wikipedia with about 587,000 articles as of January 2025. [1] Wikipedia is the only encyclopedia in Finnish which is still updated. [2] The Finnish language project was started in late 2002, but it remained at a very primitive stage until well into 2003.
The country is divided into 69 sub-regions, which are formed by groups of municipalities within the 19 regions of Finland. These sub-regions represent a LAU 1 level of division used in conjunction with the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics .