aucor, Author at thisisFINLAND

Waiter, 200-year-old champagne, please

On Finland’s autonomous Åland Islands, we taste champagne that spent nearly 200 years in a shipwreck on the floor of the Baltic Sea.

On iPhone or internet, Nordic Food Glossary brings you all things edible in an array of Nordic languages.

Several female tech entrepreneurs are household names in Finland, and more are on the way up. We meet two of them.

See why Finland places second on the global Good Country Index. It’s about the greater good of humanity and the planet.

We check out the unique Finnish cultural sites and natural features included on the famous Unesco World Heritage list.

Slideshow: We take a look around Lonna, a small, inviting island near the famous sea fortress of Suomenlinna.

Gulf of Finland Year: See how Finland, Russia and Estonia are intensifying efforts to monitor and clean the Gulf of Finland.

People in Finland celebrate name days as well as birthdays. We look at a tradition that stretches back to medieval times.