FINLAND ALMOST 100 YEARS
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.
CITY CENTER IN HELSINKI,CAPITAL OF FINLAND
Finland will be 100 years later on this year and this is authoritative.
Checks by The News Office Desk of Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos, Nigeria
recently showed the nation had
being passed around in the past as some colonial post before she became an
independent nation.
Mr Timo Sipola ,A Finn in
replies to questions posed to him by this reporter noted that his nation was
part of Sweden for 600 years and the
Russia annexed them in 1809 with Vladmir Lenin giving them their much sought
after freedom in 1917.
He announced that Finland was going to be 100 years in December,2017 .
His Words:”we have been under the Tsars,King of Sweden but we have
never had any King what so ever,there were discussions in the past about
monarchy but in the end it was those that wanted a republic that won the
discourse”
Finland (
i/ˈfɪnlənd/;
Finnish: Suomi [suomi] (
listen); Swedish: Finland [ˈfɪnland]), officially the Republic of Finland,[7] is a sovereign state in Northern Europe. A peninsula with the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west, the country has land borders with
Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east. Estonia is south of the country across the Gulf of Finland.
Finland is a Nordic country situated in
the geographical region of Fennoscandia, which also includes Scandinavia. Finland's population is 5.5 million (2014), and
the majority of the population is concentrated in the southern region.[8] 88.7% of the population is Finnish people who speak Finnish, an Uralic language unrelated to Scandinavian languages; the
second major group are the Finland-Swedes (5.3%). In terms of area, it is the eighth largest
country in Europe and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union.
Finland is a parliamentary republic
with a central government based in the capital Helsinki, local governments in 317 municipalities,[9] and an autonomous region, the Åland Islands. Over 1.4 million people live in the Greater Helsinki metropolitan area, which produces a third of
the country's GDP. From the late 12th
century, Finland was an integral part of Sweden, a legacy reflected in the prevalence of the Swedish
language and its official status. In the spirit of the notion of Adolf Ivar Arwidsson
(1791–1858), "we are not Swedes, we do not want to become Russians, let us
therefore be Finns", the Finnish national identity started to become
established. Nevertheless, in 1809, Finland was incorporated into the Russian Empire as the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland. In
1906, Finland became the second nation in the world to give the right to vote
to all adult citizens and the first in the world to give all adult citizens the
right to run for public office.[10][11] Following the 1917 Russian Revolution,
Finland declared itself independent.i/ˈfɪnlənd/;
Finnish: Suomi [suomi] ( listen); Swedish: Finland [ˈfɪnland]), officially the Republic of Finland,[7] is a sovereign state in Northern Europe. A peninsula with the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west, the country has land borders with
Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east. Estonia is south of the country across the Gulf of Finland.
Finland is a Nordic country situated in
the geographical region of Fennoscandia, which also includes Scandinavia. Finland's population is 5.5 million (2014), and
the majority of the population is concentrated in the southern region.[8] 88.7% of the population is Finnish people who speak Finnish, an Uralic language unrelated to Scandinavian languages; the
second major group are the Finland-Swedes (5.3%). In terms of area, it is the eighth largest
country in Europe and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union.In 1918, the fledgling state was divided by civil war, with the Bolshevik-leaning "Reds" supported by the equally new Soviet Russia, fighting the "Whites", supported by the German Empire. After a brief attempt to establish a kingdom, the country became a republic. During World War II, the Soviet Union sought repeatedly to occupy Finland, with Finland losing parts of Karelia, Salla and Kuusamo, Petsamo and some islands, but retaining independence. Finland joined the United Nations in 1955 and established an official policy of neutrality. The Finno-Soviet Treaty of 1948 gave the Soviet Union some leverage in Finnish domestic politics during the Cold War era. Finland joined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 1969, the NATO Partnership for Peace on 1994,[12] the European Union in 1995, the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council in 1997,[12] and finally the Eurozone at its inception, in 1999.
Finland was a relative latecomer to industrialization, remaining a largely agrarian country until the 1950s. It rapidly developed an advanced economy while building an extensive Nordic-style welfare state, resulting in widespread prosperity and one of the highest per capita incomes in the world.[13] However, Finnish GDP growth has been negative in 2012–2014 (−0.698% to −1.426%), with a preceding nadir of −8% in 2009.[14] Finland is a top performer in numerous metrics of national performance, including education, economic competitiveness, civil liberties, quality of life, and human development.[15][16][17][18] In 2015, Finland was ranked first in the World Human Capital[19] and the Press Freedom Index, and as the most stable country in the world during 2011–2016 in the Fragile States Index,[20] and second in the Global Gender Gap Report.[21] A large majority of Finns are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church,[22] though freedom of religion is guaranteed under the Finnish Constitution.
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