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Finnish people love to have a sauna. Most people have saunas in their house. Finland is super cold and Saunas are hot and cozy. They are generally quiet and love to have fun. They are warm and friendly people. They don’t like it when you’re stiff or uneasy at a party, they like it when you have fun.

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Sami or Laplanders are the family in the picture below.  They are the native people for Finland. They do things like fur trapping and herd reindeer etc. They have been here forever. Their families go back and back generations. There are about 9,350 Sami or Laplanders people who live in Finland. A lot has changed they have gotten a lot more modern. The original languages are dying out only 9 are left they seemed to be dying too

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After War 1 with Sweden and Finland  split island that is link to Finland because of frozen waters and seas. The water is frozen mostly because of the temperature which is really cold. The climate is July temperatures in Finland mean 13 to 17°C or 55°F to 62°F . February is almost always the coldest mount in Finland with temperatures mean from - 22 to -3°C or 7.6°F to 26.6 °F. In northern Finland, winter temperatures often drop as low as -30°C or even down to -50°C or -22°F to -58°F sometimes with strong, cold east winds or north winds.

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Finland as polar nights such as the picture below. A polar night is in north most corner of Finland is last 51 days in the dark. In southern Finland the shortest day is 6 hours long. That’s like a school day. Imagine that you go to school in the morning and come out in the complete darkness. It would probably feel like 9:00 p.m. Finland is 10% is water, 69% forest, 8% cultivated land, and 13% other. Fun fact about Finland’s geography is that Finland is the 9th largest country in Europe.

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Burning the brushwood  is the most famous painting in the 1863 to 1937. Which is also the picture below.  Finnish people use Textiles for art. Modern Finnish architecture is considered innovative.  Kids were almost always in paintings. As they were emotional and very funny to paint. Burning the brushwood is when you burn sticks from trees and it seems like making it into ash.

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Foxtrot is the most common dance in Finland. It goes slow slow quick quick quick slow slow quick quick and so on.They have there own waltz, it more slow than our waltz. Opera is very popular, though tickets are relatively expensive. The national instrument in Finland is kantele played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers.

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Finland has great value of words.

They use words carefully and nicely.

1st to 9th or 7 year olds to 16 year olds can go to school and learn. In America it goes to 5 year olds to 18 year olds. Age 15 can usually read and write. Men and Women are equal in Literary they can both read and write. Finland’s vocabulary has meaning and greatness to it. There schools are improving in math, reading, and in science. It’s been improving for the past decade.

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In the picture below is of mashed potatoes, pickles, raisins, and reindeer. Finland’s has traditional foods They have reindeer, pork and beef. They use a lot of wholemeal products. They seem like they farm a whole lot of fresh things. Traditional clothing goes back to the 16 and the 17th century. They wear a lot of warm clothing as it is really cold there. A lot of leathers and metals. They also dress casual they don’t want to out stand most of the time.

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From the picture it’s a heart because most of Finland’s religions are all about forgiveness and helping out. Also caring and grace. Laestadianism is related to Evangelical Lutheran Church it started in the 1800s. Laestadianism has a percent of the population is 2.1%. Laestadianism uses forgiveness and grace to talk or teach about wars and other things. Finland keeps bring in new people with different religions. So that makes a lot of new religions. A lot more people and cultures. Which is nice for Finland to have so many new things.

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In the graph above it shows the religions in Finland. Most of Finland is Lutheran which the full thing is Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. In fact there is 74% of the population. Which is a lot if you think about. Atheism is 23% of the population. Atheism is when you have no religion. Christian has 2% of the population. Finish orthodox has 1%. Finnish orthodox is when archbishop the leader of the Finnish orthodox and helps make rules like a offices. This is not on the graph, but I also found that there is 1% of the population in Finland is Islam. A lot of other religions are active in Finland. Making Finland have a lot of religion.

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The picture below is people putting up the Finland flag at a war. They had a war against Russia in 1809, they lost. Finland soon became a Russian umpire. Years under Russian ruling was said to be the best history years in Finland. Under the ruling by Russia they had to get use to new laws that Russia had made. The Alexander Grand Duke was the Duke of russia at the time and won the 1809 war. On 6 Dec 1917, Finland stated its independence, which was recognized by the Bolsheviks on 31 December.

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The picture below is of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Swedish ruled Finland's regions making it Catholicism. That’s why most of the population is  Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Sweden made Finland believe that. You might never heard of Catholicism. Here are some celebrities that they celebrate. They celebrate Christmas, New years day, and Independents day of Finland which is the 6th of Dec.

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The graph below is about GDP which means gross domestic product. So what it’s saying the total value of all goods and services produced within a period of time. The The average income people make is  41,100 a household. What’s the number for people that are unpaid in Finland you may ask. Well it’s 8.7% of the population or 477,000 the estimate of how many people who are unipliad.

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The picture below is Finland trading wheat for chemicals. In finland European economies is big. Exports has more than 30% of the country’s gross domestic product. They use chemical to exports. They also export paper etc. They have to bring in raw materials and energy. They provide their own food.

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The president is named Sauli Niinistö. To be a president you will serve for a six year term. The president has limits for power since they call it  parliament, but here in America we call it a similar world call congress. Congress helps make all the laws with the president who suggested the law. He still has a very important role as president. He is also the 12th president of Finland. He has been a Honorary President of European Peoples parties since 2002. He has been in office since 2012. He also served as the parliament of Finland from 2007 to 2011. In 2012 presidential election he won against  Pekka Haavisto who had a 62.6% of the vote in the second round. Sauli Niinistö got in office in march 2012.

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This is Juha Sipilä who is the Prime Minister. Who has no political schooling at all and he is also rich, but yet he is Prime Minister of Finland. So he is doing pretty well for not going to school for politics. In 1998 he created his own business. In 1996 he had the highest income in Finland. In 2002 to 2005 he worked as a CEO of Elektrobit Oyj. After 2005 he then returned to his own business. He told Finland in 2012 that he was running for congress party. On June 9, 2012, the party congress elected him to chairman. Chairman is a man who is in charge of a meeting committee.