33 - Technical data sheet : what I should have know before you leave

THE COUNTRY

Official name: Suomi - Finland (in Finnish and Swedish). » 
Capital: Helsinki, Helsingfors in Swedish. 
Area: 390,905 km2, of which 10% is water, 72% forest and 8% farmland. »
Head of state: Sauli Niinistö elected since 1" March 2012 (conservative party). 
Type of state: parliamentary republic. 
Main cities: Tampere and Turku and Helsinki (628 208 inhabitants in 2015)
Religions: 73 per cent Lutheran Protestant, 1.1 per cent Orthodox (60,000 members), 1.6 per cent other religion, 24.3 per cent non-confessional or unknown. 

FLAG




MONEY

Currency: the euro. 

THE POPULATION 

Number of inhabitants and surface area: 5.5 million inhabitants for a density of 18 inhabitants per km2 (2015).
Urban population: 83% (2011). 
Natural growth rate: 0.01% (2012).
Languages: Finnish (88%) and Swedish (5.5%). 
Sami population: 6,400 inhabitants living in Finnish Lapland. 
Life expectancy: 83.3 years (women), 76.2 years (men). 
Literacy rate: 100%. 

ECONOMY

Annual growth: +1.1% in 2015, compared with -1.2% in 2013, +2.7% in 2011 and +0.2 in 2012. 
GDP: €246 billion (2013). 
GDP per capita: €37,385/inhabitant (2013). 
Imports: €54.5 billion (2015). 
Exports: €53.9 billion (2015). 
Unemployment rate: 8.1% (2015). 
Inflation rate: 0.7 (November 2016).

TELEPHONE

To call from France to Finland, dial in order: 00 358, followed by the number of your correspondent without the 0. Example for Helsinki whose area code is (09): 00 358 9 123 4567. 
To call from Finland to France: 00 33 followed by the number of your correspondent without the 0. Example to call in the South West of France: 00 33 5 12 34 56 78
To call from Finland to Finland: dial the number of your correspondent with 0.  Example for Helsinki with area code (09): 09 123 4567.

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