英文介绍finland

The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomi, Suomen tasavalta, Swedish: Republiken Finland (help·info)), is one of the Nordic countries. Situated in Northern Europe, it shares land borders with Sweden to the west, Russia to the east and Norway to the north while Estonia lies to its south. Finland is bounded by the Baltic Sea with the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west. The Åland Islands, off the south-western coast, are an autonomous province of Finland.Finland has a population of over five million people spread over more than 330,000 km² (127,000 sq. mi) making it one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world.Finland is ranked 11th on the 2006 United Nations Human Development Index.Along with Estonian, Hungarian and Maltese, Finnish is one of the few official languages of the European Union that is not of Indo-European origin.芬兰共和国（ 芬兰语：Suomi）是一个北欧国家，陆地上与瑞典、挪威和俄罗斯接壤，西南面被波罗的海环绕，东南部为芬兰湾，西面则为波的尼亚湾。