INSPIRATION WITH LALIT MOHAN SHUKLA: Finland-A Country Of Thousand Lakes

Finland is a Northern European nation bordering Sweden, Norway and Russia. Its capital, Helsinki, occupies a peninsula and surrounding islands in the Baltic Sea. Helsinki is home to the 18th-century sea fortress Suomenlinna, the fashionable Design District and diverse museums. The Northern Lights can be seen from the country's Arctic Lapland province, a vast wilderness with national parks and ski resorts.

Finland has the second lowest poverty rate in OECD countries. OECD, Poverty rate. Finland has the fifth lowest income differences in OECD countries. OECD, Income inequality.

English. The English language is spoken by most Finns. Official statistics in 2012 show that at least 70% of Finnish people can speak English. In 2021, Juhana Vartiainen, the mayor of Helsinki, proposed declaring Helsinki an English-speaking city.

Government Report on Internal Security. Finland is the safest country in the world for all people and population groups.

Finland is famous for being the Happiest Country in the World, as well as having the world's best education system and cleanest air. Finland is known for its saunas, reindeers, Nokia, and the Santa Claus village. This Nordic utopia is sometimes called the Country of a Thousand Lakes, and it's got 187,888 of them.

The great majority of the people belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, whose status gradually changed from an official state church to a national church beginning in the 19th century.

'Finland is not easy for foreigners to find jobs,' Poudrier Tremblay states. She names the lack of networks and not knowing Finnish as the main hindrances for employment in Finland. 'When you start to search for jobs as a foreigner, you start with no contacts.

“Many things are undeniably good here – beautiful nature, we're well governed, lots of things are in order,” the business owner said. The country of vast forests and lakes is also known for its well-functioning public services, ubiquitous saunas, widespread trust in authority and low levels of crime and inequality.

Summer in Finland is a spectacular time of the year. For those who venture north of the Arctic Circle, the sun does not set at all from May to August, while further south the sun can be visible for nearly around the clock during June and July.

If you do not need a visa to Finland, you can stay in the country for a maximum of 90 days. If you are a Finnish citizen's family member and you intend to travel to Finland for a longer stay than three months, you can apply for a residence permit in advance at a Finnish mission.

In Finland, a person must have a surname and at least one given name with up to three middle names permitted. Surnames are inherited either patrilineally or matrilineally, while given names are usually chosen by a person's parents.

Finland does not see any direct military threats posed against it by Russia at the moment, Finnish Ambassador to NATO Klaus Korhonen told CNN.