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Between 1634 and 2009, Finland was administered as several provinces (Finnish: Suomen läänit, Swedish: Finlands län). Finland had always been a unitary...

administration. In 2022, new Wellbeing services counties were established as part of a health care and social services reform. The wellbeing services counties follow...

the Finnish War, Sweden was forced to cede the counties in Finland to Russia following the Treaty of Fredrikshamn in (1809). However, the counties were...

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia...

organising health, social and emergency services in Finland. There are 21 wellbeing services counties and the county division is mainly based on the region division...

granting of counties and baronies in Finland began with the coronation of King Eric XIV in 1561 and continued through Great Reductions in the latter half...

is a list of cities and towns (Finnish: kaupunki, Swedish: stad) in Finland. The basic administrative unit of Finland is municipality. Since 1977, there...

The politics of Finland take place within the framework of a parliamentary representative democracy. Finland is a republic whose head of state is President...

entities in 1634 when they were superseded by the counties, a reform which remained in force in Finland until 1997. The historical provinces remain as a...

cultures [fi]. The Finnish Bronze Age started in approximately 1,500 BC and the Iron Age started in 500 BC and lasted until 1,300 AD. Finnish Iron Age cultures...

of Finland (whose members are called by many names—see below; Swedish: finlandssvenskar; Finnish: suomenruotsalaiset) is a linguistic minority in Finland...

There are 3,144 counties and county-equivalents in the United States. The source of the data is the U.S. Census Bureau and the data is current as of the...

on an average of 5-10 days per summer in northern Finland. The area of Lapland was split between two counties of the Swedish Realm from 1634 to 1809...

municipalities (Finnish: kunta, Swedish: kommun). Furthermore, health, social and emergency services are responsible of 21 Wellbeing services counties (Finnish: hyvinvointialue...

In Swedish and Finnish history, Finland under Swedish rule is the historical period when the bulk of the area that later came to constitute Finland was...

populous city in Finland. It is located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and serves as the seat of the Uusimaa region in southern Finland. Approximately...

Grand Duchy of Finland, officially and also translated as the Grand Principality of Finland, was the predecessor state of modern Finland. It existed between...

TOOR-koo; Finnish: [ˈturku] ; Swedish: Åbo, Finland Swedish: [ˈoːbu] ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland. It is located...

Healthcare in Finland consists of a highly decentralized three-level publicly funded healthcare system and a much smaller private sector. Although the...

The foreign relations of Finland are the responsibility of the president of Finland, who leads foreign policy in cooperation with the government. Implicitly...