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The sites described in this section provide general information and links to metasites/portals of Internet resources concerning Finland.
Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO). Country Profiles: Finland
(http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-the-fco/country-profiles/europe/finland/)
Prepared by FCO desk offices, the profile provides a general overview of Finland and includes sinformation on the country's recent history, recent political developments, relations with the international community, and bilateral political and commercial relations with the UK, as well as links to other relevant pages on the FCO site.
Tilastokeskus (http://www.stat.fi/index%5Fen.html)
Statistics. Finland. Statistical information about Finland, links to statistical information in Finland and all over the world, statistical news, data collections, products and services, and more. Searchable. In Finnish, Swedish, and English.
U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook: Finland (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/fi.html)
General information and statistics about Finland, with the following subdivisions: introduction, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
U.S. Library of Congress.
Federal Research Division. Finland: a country study (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/fitoc.html)
The Federal Research Division (FRD) of the Library of Congress published in 1990 an extensive handbook entitled Finland: a country study. The Text and selected graphics of the 446-page work are available in an electronic format on the FRD Web site. The reader can search for words or variants of search words, within one country study or across multiple studies. The country study can be downloaded, one section at a time, and saved as an html or txt file. (No revised editions are planned at present.)
U.S. State Department. Bureau
of Public Affairs. Background Notes (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/)Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. Click on Finland.
General Portals
Department
of Scandinavian Studies. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Finlandlink. General
Links to Finland (http://scandinavian.wisc.edu/scandlinks/finland.html)
Includes links to general information, Finnish state administration, language and culture, media, and universities.
Fennica.Net - Suomi Internetissä (http://www.fennica.net)
Information by topic and region, e.g., city, county, or province. Searchable. In Finnish.
Governments on the WWW: Finland (http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/fi.html)
Links to national, regional, and municipal institutions; representations in foreign countries; political parties, and more.
Open Directory: Regional:
Europe: Finland (http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Finland/)
Links to a wide variety of Web sites culled from major search engines. The number of links is listed next to each category.
Virtual Finland (http://virtual.finland.fi)
Includes links to facts and figures, politics, and society, history, foreign policy, education and research, and nature and the environment. Culture Gallery, a digital showcase, features Finnish contemporary artists.
National Symbols
Finnish
Flag (http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/lippueng.html)
Information on and images of the Finnish national and state flags.
Finnish
National Anthem (http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/hymnieng.html)
The Finnish National Anthem: Words by J.L. Runeberg 1846, Music by Fredrik Pacius 1848. In Finnish and English.
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