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Is the biggest one by area
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Owns the Åland Islands
The majority speak Swedish there but is under Finnish rule
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Elected world's first female head of government democratically
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, the first female president of Iceland
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Used to be a part of the Russian Empire till 1917
After the Finnish Civil War, Finland gained its independence from the Russian Empire
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Uses Euro as its official currency
The others all use "Crown" (Krona / Krone)
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Produces most of Europe's oil
Norway is world's 15th largest oil producer
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Is called "The Land of The Thousand Lakes"
It's because there are at least 187,888 lakes in the country
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Hosted the Winter Olympics twice
First in Oslo in 1952 and second in Lillehammer in 1994
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Has the world's oldest active parliament
It started in 930
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First to abolish censorship
Sweden also introduced a law guaranteeing freedom of the press and abolishing censorship in 1766, then Denmark-Norway followed suit in 1770
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Has had a French king
Charles XIV John, the founder of the current Swedish Royal House, was one of Napoleon's closest allies as well
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Its language has two written standards
Bokmål (book tongue) and Nynorsk (new Norwegian)
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Its flag is the world's oldest flag still in use today
It was adopted in 1370, and second comes Norway's flag in between Nordic contries which was adopted in 1899
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Its official language is NOT Indo-European
Finnish is an Uralic language, in the same family as Hungarian, Estonian and Sami
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Finnmark is its northernmost mainland region
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Wind power produces almost half of country's total electricity
Almost 43% of Denmark's electricity comes from wind power, world's highest
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Discovered America first
Half a millennium before Columbus “discovered” America, Leif Eriksson may have been the first European ones to ever have touched North American soil
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Got the second place in the FIFA World Cup
In 1958 FIFA World Cup, Sweden, the host, lost to Brazil in the finals
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Legalized pornography first
The ban on pornography in Denmark was lifted in 1967 and got legalized in 1969