Make a budget for how much online will cost the reservation your next car rental in Finland. To begin select the city, airport, train station or tourist destination in Finland where you want to rent a car and then selects the place where you plan to return the car, then fill in the dates on which you have to use the car.
Area: 338,145 sq km (130,559 sq miles). Population: 5.2 million (UN, 2002). Population Density: 15.37 per sq km. Capital: Helsinki. Population: 560,000 (FCO). Government: Republic. Head of State: President Tarja Halonen since 2000. Finland is situated in the far north of Europe, bordered to thewest by Sweden and the Gulf of Bothnia, to the north by Norway, to theeast by the Russian Federation and to the south by the Gulf of Finland.There are about 30,000 islands off the Finnish coast, mainly in thesouth and southwest, and inland lakes containing a further 98,000islands. The Saimaa lake area is the largest inland water system inEurope. Of the total land area, 10 per cent is under water, and 65 percent is forest; Finland is situated almost entirely in the northernconiferous zone. In the south and southwest, the forest is mainly pine,fir and birch. In Lapland, in the far north, trees become more sparseand are mainly dwarf birch. Eight per cent of the land is cultivated. Language: There are two officiallanguages: Finnish, spoken by 93.4 per cent of the population, andSwedish, spoken by 5.9 per cent of the population. There are small Lappand Russian speaking minorities. English is taught as the first foreignlanguage. Religion: 86 per cent EvangelicalLutheran, one per cent Finnish Orthodox; there are also Baptists,Methodists, Free Church, Roman Catholic, Jews and Muslims. Time: GMT + 2 (GMT + 3 from last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October). Social Conventions: Shaking hands iscustomary. It is customary for the guest to refrain from drinking untilthe host or hostess toasts their health with a 'kippis' or a 'skol'.Casual dress is acceptable. Finns appear sometimes to be ratherreserved and visitors should not feel alarmed if there is a lack ofsmall talk during the first half hour or so. Shoes are usually removedwhen entering someone's home. Electricity: 220 (230) volts AC, 50Hz. Continental two-pin plugs are standard.
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