Finland

Finland is famous, above all, for its lakes - it is no coincidence that it is called the "land of a thousand lakes." Indeed, there are about 190,000 of them in the country, occupying approximately 9% of its total area.... It is also renowned for Finnish saunas, winter sports, the Lahti ski resort, Santa Claus's house in Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finnish Nokia phones, the Karelian-Finnish epic Kalevala, the blue eyes and snow-white skin of Finnish women of the White Sea-Baltic race, which is considered the lightest among the Europoid races and among all groups of world races. Finland is glorified by beautiful music, art and design, forms and architecture, beloved Moomins… The names of Jean Sibelius, Alvar Aalto, and Tove Jansson are inscribed in golden letters in the treasury of world culture.