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The size of Finland is slightly smaller than Montana. Finland is located in Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Sweden and Russia. The terrain mostly low, flat to rolling plains interspersed with lakes and low hills. Finlands Geographic coordinates are 64 degrees N, 26 degrees E. Helsinki is the capital of Finland. Finlands total area is 338,145 sq km, the total area of land is 304,473 sq km, and 33,672 sq km of water. The population of Finland is 5,223,442 as of July 2005. Finland has many different languages like Finnish in fact Finland is 92% Finnish. They also speak 5.6% Swedish and 2.4% other. There are also many different religions in Finland like Lutheran National Church, Greek Orthodox and Christan. The life expentctancy in Finland is 78.35 years, for males it is 74.82 years, and for females it is 82.02 years. Finlands government type is a republic. Finland exports $61.04 billion dollars and imports $45.17 billion dollars. The natural resources of Finland is timber, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, chromite, nickel, gold, silver, and, limestone. The birthrate is 10.42 births/1,000 population.
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