Finland

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Finland is a republic in Northern Europe. Its capital city is Helsinki. Finland borders to Russia and Sweden, and joined the European Union on 1 January 1995.

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General Info

The Republic of Finland is a country situated in Northern Europe. It borders with Sweden to the west, Norway to the north and with Russia to the east.

Finland has population of around 5.4 million and most of them live in the southern part of the country. It is the eight largest country in Europe in term of area and official languages are Finnish and Swedish. Swedish is only spoken as a main language for a small minority, Sami is also recognized on a local basis.

Finland used to be part of Sweden and later Russia. They declared their independence from Russia in 1917 . Finland joined the UN in '55 and the EU in the 1995. Like most of the members of EU, they use Euro as they official currency.

Interesting facts :

• Finland has been ranked the second most stable country in the world in a survey based on social, economic, political and military indicators.
• Finland is the only country in Scandinavia without a monarchy.
• Despite what the above fact sais, Finland is not part of Scandinavia proper. Fenno-Scandinavia is the proper term if you want to include Finland with the rest of the Scandinavian countries.
• Finnish people really like salmiakki aka salty liquorice.
• There are no reports of polar bears in Finland. Finland is considered a free zone after the great Polar Bear vs. Russian Bear war of 1921 to create a buffer between the two great factions.

When it comes to video games, Finland appeared in games like FIFA series, NHL,Hearts of Iron 3 etc. In addition, the Star Wars martial art and the video game named after it Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi is Finnish for Steel Hand. The Finnish developed Cities in Motion (Game) contains a scenario set in Helsinki

Finnish Developers

Linux

Linux was originally developed by Linus Torvalds and the personal computer has historically been very strong in Finland.

Bugbear

Founded in 2000, they are most famous for the Flatout games

Futuremark

Responsible 3D mark benchmarking tool 3D Mark and recently made Shattered Horizon (Game), their first game release.

Remedy

Made Death Rally (Game) in 1995 before creating the Max Payne (Franchise) Series in 2001. They then went on to make their debut on consoles, the originally 360-exclusive Alan Wake (Game). It was since released on the PC along with it's follow-up stand-alone DLC Alan Wake's American Nightmare.

RedLynx

Started out making games for Nokia (Company)'s ill fated N-Gage system. Lately they made Trials 2 and Trials HD (Game).

Supercell

The developers of Clash of Clans and Clash Royale are located in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Two Japanese companies, SoftBankand GungHO now own a majority share of the company.

Housemarque (Company)

Formed from the merger of two amiga developers Terramarque and Bloodhouse which had made the first Super Stardust (Game) game. After creating Supreme Snowboarding (Game) and Transworld Snowboarding, the are most famous today for Super Stardust HD (Game) and Dead Nation (Game) for PSN

Rovio

Founded in 2003, Rovio is a Finnish mobile developer most known as the developers behind Angry Birds (Game).

Colossal Order (Company)

Made the public transportation simulator Cities in Motion. They were founded in 2009.

Others

There are also various smaller companies that make indie games and mobile phone games. One of the Indie (Concept) developers 10ton made Crimsonland. Nitro Games, developers of Commander: Conquest of the Americas is also from Finland.

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• Among the Trolls (Game)
• Backpacker (Game)
• Backpacker 2 (Game)
• Big Air FreeStyle (Game)
• Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010 (Game)
• Call to Arms (Game)
• Cities in Motion (Game)
• Colin McRae Rally 3 (Game)
• Crusader Kings II (Game)
• DiRT 3 (Game)
• DiRT Rally (Game)
• EA Sports WRC (Game)
• Elitserien 2001 (Game)
• Empire: Total War (Game)
• Euro Truck Simulator 2 (Game)
• Excitebots: Trick Racing (Game)
• FIFA 06: Road To FIFA World Cup (Game)
• FIFA 98: Road to World Cup (Game)
• FIFA Soccer 13 (Game)
• GT Advance 2: Rally Racing (Game)
• GeoGuessr (Game)
• Hearts of Iron III (Game)
• IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles (Game)
• Microsoft Flight Simulator (v4.0) (Game)
• Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (Game)
• Momotaro Dentetsu World (Game)
• MotoGP 20 (Game)
• My Summer Car (Game)
• Need for Speed: V-Rally 2 (Game)
• Oil Tycoon (Game)
• Patrician IV (Game)
• Perkele! Suomi 100 Vuotta (Game)
• Project Reality: BF2 (Game)
• RTL Skispringen 2003 (Game)
• Rampage 2: Universal Tour (Game)
• ReThink (Game)
• Ride 4 (Game)
• Risk II (Game)
• Sensible Soccer: European Champions (Game)
• Shadow President (Game)
• Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty (Game)
• Stratený v Európe (Game)
• Sudden Strike 4 (Game)
• Super Trucks Racing (Game)
• The Operative: No One Lives Forever (Game)
• TransWorld Snowboarding (Game)
• UEFA Euro 2008 (Game)
• UnReal World (Game)
• V-Rally 3 (Game)
• VR Soccer '96 (Game)
• WRC 3 (Game)
• WRC 4 FIA World Rally Championship (Game)
• WRC 5 (Game)
• WRC 6 (Game)
• WRC 7 (Game)
• WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship (Game)
• WRC Generations (Game)
• WRC II Extreme (Game)
• WRC World Rally Championship (Game)
• WRC4 (Game)
• WRC: Rally Evolved (Game)
• White Hell (Game)
• World in Conflict (Game)
• art of rally (Game)

Location details

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Finland

Aliases

Suomi

Games

• Among the Trolls (Game)
• Backpacker (Game)
• Backpacker 2 (Game)
• Big Air FreeStyle (Game)
• Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010 (Game)
• Call to Arms (Game)
• Cities in Motion (Game)
• Colin McRae Rally 3 (Game)
• Crusader Kings II (Game)
• DiRT 3 (Game)
• DiRT Rally (Game)
• EA Sports WRC (Game)
• Elitserien 2001 (Game)
• Empire: Total War (Game)
• Euro Truck Simulator 2 (Game)
• Excitebots: Trick Racing (Game)
• FIFA 06: Road To FIFA World Cup (Game)
• FIFA 98: Road to World Cup (Game)
• FIFA Soccer 13 (Game)
• GT Advance 2: Rally Racing (Game)
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Characters

• Has characters: Red Jack (Character), Sami Hyypia (Character), Mika Häkkinen (Character), Luviagelita Edelfelt (Character), JJ Lehto (Character), Kimi Räikkönen (Character), Mickey the Finn (Character), Ahti (Character), Nøkk (Character), Olavi Huttunen (Character), Kari Laukkanen (Character), Ari Heikkinen (Character), Erik Holmgren (Character), Erkka Petaja (Character), Ilkka Remes (Character), Anders Eriksson (Character), Jari Rinne (Character), Kari Ukkonen (Character), Marko Myyry (Character), Tommi Paavola (Character), Petri Jarvinen (Character), Jari Litmanen (Character), Ari Hjelm (Character), Mixu Paatelainen (Character), Kimmo Tarkkio (Character), Jukka Vakkila (Character), Juha Karjalainen (Character), Antti Niemi (Character), Jari Europaeus (Character), Aki Hyryläinen (Character), Petri Helin (Character), Pekka Onttonen (Character), Pasi Rautiainen (Character), Jouko Vuorela (Character), Kari Rissanen (Character), Janne Suokonautio (Character), Petri Tiainen (Character), Pasi Tauriainen (Character), Mika Väyrynen (Character), Tommi Toivonen (Character), Ismo Lius (Character), Jyrki Nieminen (Character), Tommi Mäkinen (Character)

Concepts

• Has concepts: Snow (Concept), World War II (Concept), Police (Concept), Ice Skating (Concept), Aurora (Concept), Norse Mythology (Concept), Ragnarök (Concept), FC Haka (Concept), Kuusankosken Kumu (Concept), Myllykosken Pallo −47 (Concept), Suomen Palloliitto (Concept), Rally (Concept), Social Democracy (Concept), FC Lahti (Concept), HJK Helsinki (Concept), Reipas Lahti (Concept), JS Hercules (Concept), FC Oulu (Concept), Oulun Luistinseura (Concept), FC Hämeenlinna (Concept), Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat (Concept), Tampereen Ilves (Concept), Tampereen Pallo-Veikot (Concept), Vasa IFK (Concept), IF Gnistan (Concept), Rauman Pallo (Concept), Atlantis FC (Concept), Rovaniemen Palloseura (Concept), FC Jokerit (Concept), FC Jazz (Concept), PK-35 Vantaa (Concept), MP Mikkeli (Concept), FC KooTeePee (Concept), Turun Palloseura (Concept), FC Kontu (Concept), Finnairin Palloilijat (Concept), AC Allianssi (Concept), AC Vantaa (Concept), FC Honka (Concept), VJS Vantaa (Concept), FC Kuusysi (Concept), Ekenäs IF (Concept), FF Jaro (Concept), Kuopion Palloseura (Concept), JIPPO Joensuu (Concept), Tampere United (Concept), Hangö IK (Concept), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Concept)

Objects

• Has objects: Car (Object), Mosin-Nagant (Object), Fur Coats (Object), Tokarev SVT-40 (Object), Leopard 2 (Object), Sleds (Object), Salmiakkiruutu (Object)

Related Locations

• Has related locations: Russia (Location), Earth (Location), McDonald's (Location), Sweden (Location), Tundra (Location), Helsinki (Location), Vantaa (Location), Kotka (Location), Turku (Location), Pori (Location), Rovaniemi (Location), Oulu (Location), Rauma, Finland (Location), Mikkeli (Location), Lahti (Location), Kouvola (Location), Espoo (Location), Kuusankoski (Location), Valkeakoski (Location), Tampere (Location), Hämeenlinna (Location), Ekenäs, Finland (Location), Vaasa (Location), Jakobstad (Location), Kuopio (Location), Joensuu (Location), Hanko, Finland (Location)