Finland (nation)
Name
Finland (nation)
Variant Names
Republic of Finland, Republiken Finland
Descriptive Note Text
Officially Republic of Finland, it is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. Finland was historically a part of Sweden and from 1809 on, an autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian Empire. Finnish Declaration of Independence from Russia in 1917 was followed by a civil war, wars against the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and a period of official neutrality during the Cold War.