Q 01/05

Finland shares land borders with Sweden, Norway and which other country?

A) Estonia

B) Russia

C) Poland

D) Latvia

Answer · why

B) Russia

The Russian border runs about 1,300 km along Finland's entire eastern flank, which is why NATO's land frontier with Russia more than doubled when Finl...

Q 02/05

Which two languages are Finland's official national languages?

A) Finnish and Sámi

B) Finnish and Estonian

C) Finnish and Swedish

D) Finnish and Russian

Answer · why

C) Finnish and Swedish

Swedish is the mother tongue of only about 5% of Finns, yet it keeps equal legal status, and street signs in bilingual towns carry both languages.

Q 03/05

Roughly how many recorded lakes does Finland have?

A) About 30,000

B) About 120,000

C) About 75,000

D) Over 180,000

Answer · why

D) Over 180,000

Lakes, rivers and ponds cover about a tenth of the country, and another 78% is forest, leaving very little farmland.

Q 04/05

Lake Saimaa, Finland's largest lake, is the only home of which endangered animal?

A) A freshwater ringed seal

B) A dwarf sturgeon

C) A landlocked salmon shark

D) A flightless grebe

Answer · why

A) A freshwater ringed seal

The Saimaa ringed seal has been cut off from the sea for around 9,500 years, since the land rose after the last ice age, and only about 500 remain.

Q 05/05

Which Finnish company, rooted in an 1865 mill, was the world's largest mobile phone vendor from 1998?

A) Valmet

B) Ericsson

C) Vaisala

D) Nokia

Answer · why

D) Nokia

The company took its name from a second mill by the town of Nokia in 1871, and spent decades making rubber boots, tyres and cables before phones.