Finland

Facts

What the numbers say about Finland

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 51.0× the size of Finland.
• Finland ranks 66th of 239 by area but only 116th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 17 people per km², Finland is the 160th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 64°N is drawn about 5.3× too large in area, so Finland looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Finland's main territory stretches about 1,140 km north to south and 536 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 338,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 333,000 km², to within 2%.

How Finland measures up

Finland holds 1.5% of the land area and 0.8% of the people of the 50 countries listed for Europe. In Northern Europe it is the 3rd largest of 14.

Where Finland sits

• Finland's centre lies at 64.3°N, 26.2°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 7,140 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 60°N to 70°N, about 1,140 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Finland had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Finland would have 417.1 million people. It has 5.7 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Finland would have 1.2 million people. It has 5.7 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 24.1 million.

Compare Finland

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