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5/ In the North, Finland 🇫🇮 borders Norway 🇳🇴 and Sweden 🇸🇪, the three countries meet on a tiny island in the middle of a lake at the Three-Country Cairn

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Co

#geoweirdness

Map showing the tiny island the Three-Country cairn marking the meeting point of Finland, Sweden, and Norway
Map showing the location of the three-country cairn
7 April at 16:28 | Open on en.osm.town
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6/ Relations between the Nordic countries are very friendly, so much so that - as covered in our Norway 🇳🇴 #geoweirdness thread - Norway considered giving Finland 🇫🇮 a mountain for it's 100th birthday a few years ago

theguardian.com/world/2016/jul

7 April at 16:29 | Open on en.osm.town
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7/ Relations with eastern neighbour Russia 🇷🇺 are not as friendly.

Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦, Finland joined NATO in 2023, ending the long policy of neutrality it had maintained during the cold war

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland%

theguardian.com/world/2023/apr

7 April at 16:30 | Open on en.osm.town
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8/ During World War II Finland 🇫🇮 fought against the Soviet Union, and the relationship following the war was tense.

The two countries signed an armistice in 1944:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_A

As part of the agreement Finland surrendered various eastern territories. They also agreed to lease the peninsula of Porkkala on the southern Finnish coast to the Soviet Union for 50 years. However it was transferred back to Finnish control in 1956.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porkkala

#geoweirdness

8/ During World War II Finland 🇫🇮 fought against the Soviet Union, and the relationship following the war was tense.

The two countries signed an armistice in 1944:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_A

As part of the agreement Finland surrendered various eastern territories. They also agreed to lease the peninsula of Porkkala on the southern Finnish coast to the Soviet Union for 50 years. However it was transferred back to Finnish control in 1956.

Map showing territories Finland lost to the Soviet Union following WWII
Map of the Porkkala peninsula
7 April at 16:33 | Open on en.osm.town
OpenCage 👉🌍

9/ That's it for our look at 🇫🇮 Finland's #geoweirdness
Thanks for reading and boosting. What did we overlook?

We have more threads about specific countries, border disputes, geocoding, etc linked on our blog:

blog.opencagedata.com/geothrea

If you like Finland you may enjoy our threads about

🇸🇪 Sweden: en.osm.town/@opencage/11072296

🇳🇴 Norway en.osm.town/@opencage/10969276

🇩🇰 Denmark: en.osm.town/@opencage/11016521

9/ That's it for our look at 🇫🇮 Finland's #geoweirdness
Thanks for reading and boosting. What did we overlook?

We have more threads about specific countries, border disputes, geocoding, etc linked on our blog:

blog.opencagedata.com/geothrea

If you like Finland you may enjoy our threads about

Screenshot of the OpenCage blog page of geothreads
7 April at 16:38 | Open on en.osm.town
OpenCage 👉🌍

10/ Bonus toot - we would be remiss not to seize the rare chance to work a Monty Python reference into a #geoweirdness thread, so please enjoy their musical homage to Finland 🇫🇮

Enjoy: youtube.com/watch?v=baHsoEAAMZ #montypython

7 April at 16:39 | Open on en.osm.town
Ilya Zverev

@opencage I expected you to mention that many places and roads have official names in two languages (and maybe promote the OpenCage's language feature with that :)

Or that it has the 4th largest lake in Europe, but unlike others, it's made of hundreds little parts, which in part gave Finland the title of "the land of thousand lakes". (And also the lake has like 14000 islands and is a super huge multipolygon in OSM that sometimes causes trouble).

7 April at 17:19 | Open on en.osm.town
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