| Finnish Language Miscellaneous Facts
Finnish is considered the official language of Finland and is equal in status to Swedish, another official language of Finland. Over 6 million people in around 7 different countries including Finland speak Finnish. In fact, the US alone accounts for roughly 300,000 speakers of the Scandinavian languages, which includes Finnish as well. Worldwide, there are over 3.3 Finnish-speaking people who access the Internet. The Finnish language belongs to the Finno-Ugric sub-group of the Ural-Altaic language family and is closely related to Estonian and Saami.
For decades now, Finland has had a highly industrialized, largely free-market economy with a per capita output equal to that of other western economies such as for example Sweden, UK, France and Germany. Finland's population of about 5.2 million people enjoys a GDP per capita of about $37,300 dollars and a total purchasing power parity GDP of about 195.8 billion dollars. Finland's economic success is due to the manufacturing sector and it's exports account for about 1/3 of the GDP. Finland's economy is expected to increase with the rise of the European economy since it is a member of the European Union and uses the Euro currency. The Finnish speaking population offers great potential for online business and should definitely be considered when accessing the online European markets.
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Aina.fi aka Makupalat:
http://www.makupalat.fi/
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Altavista in Finnish:
http://fi.altavista.com
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Google in Finnish:
http://www.google.com/intl/fi/
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Elisa.net aka Kolumbus.fi :
http://elisa.net
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MSN in Finnish:
http://search.msn.fi
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Suomi24:
http://www.suomi24.fi/
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Soneraplaza:
http://www.soneraplaza.fi
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WalHello:
http://www.walhello.com |
Webinfo:
http://www.webinfo.fi
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Webstudio:
http://www.webstudio.fi
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WWW.fi:
http://www.fi
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