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Finland
Index
Like its predecessor, this study is an attempt to treat
in a
compact and objective manner the dominant social,
political,
economic, and military aspects of contemporary Finland.
Sources
of information included scholarly books, journals, and
monographs, official reports of governments and
international
organizations, numerous periodicals, and interviews with
individuals having special competence in Finnish and
Nordic
affairs. Chapter bibliographies appear at the end of the
book;
brief comments on sources recommended for further reading
appear
at the end of each chapter. Measurements are given in the
metric
system; a conversion table is provided to assist readers
unfamiliar with metric measurements (see
table 1, Appendix
A). A
glossary is also included.
There are two official languages in Finland, Finnish
and
Swedish. The latter language, once dominant, is now spoken
as a
first language by only 6 percent of Finland's population.
For
this reason, Finnish place-names are used throughout this
volume.
An exception was made only when referring to the Aland
Islands
and to their capital, Mariehamn, where the Swedish forms
are
preferred. In cases where it could be useful for a reader
to know
a Swedish place-name, it has been provided in parentheses
after
the Finnish place-name. Table 2, Appendix A, lists the
Finnish
and Swedish names of the country's twelve provinces and of
several dozen other geographic sites.
Data as of December 1988
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