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Finland: We’re number 3, we’re number 3!

Publishing its recommendations for 2017, premium travel and guidebook brand Lonely Planet ranks Finland third on its Best in Travel 2017 list of countries. Finland is the only European nation to make it into the top ten.

Life & society Webpick

When the sun doesn’t rise in northern Finland

The Polar Night Counter shows how long kaamos, the season with no sunrise, lasts in northern Finland. It also shows how long is left before the winter solstice.

Arts & culture Webpick

Finnish singer Alma’s crazy summer

In early July, Alma Miettinen dropped her first song, “Karma,” just to see what would happen. Less than two months later, “Karma” became the second-most streamed Finnish song of the 2010s on Spotify, right after “Hollywood Hills” by Sunrise Avenue.