Map of Finland

Finland is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 64.0° N, 26.0° E. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Norway, Russia and Sweden — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Finland is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Finland shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Finland covers about 338,455 km² (130,678 sq mi). That makes it the 66th-largest country in the world by area and the 8th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 37 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 5,650,325, the 116th-largest in the world and the 23rd-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.8% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Finland has an average population density of about 17 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 23rd by population and 8th by area.

The seat of government is Helsinki, and the official currency is the Euro (EUR, €), and the main official languages are Finnish and Swedish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Finland carries the ISO country codes FI and FIN, dials on the international calling code +358 and uses the .fi internet domain.

Finland shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Russia (capital Moscow, about 146,028,325 people), Sweden (capital Stockholm, about 10,605,098 people) and Norway (capital Oslo, about 5,606,944 people).

By area, Finland is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 64.0° N, 26.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Finland within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Helsinki. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Finland lies about 7,104 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Finland keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Euro (EUR, €).

The official languages are Finnish and Swedish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +358 and websites commonly use the .fi internet domain.

In short, Finland is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Helsinki. Finland has a population of about 5,650,325 and covers around 338,455 km² (130,678 sq mi), ranking it 116th in the world by population and 66th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Finland.

The flag of Finland has a white field with a large blue cross that extend to the edges of the field. The vertical part of this cross is offset towards the hoist side.

The flag of Finland is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.