official name is Republic of , Finnish Suomi or Suomen Tasa Valta, Swedish , or Republiken , European country. It is one of the world's most northern and geographically remote countries and is subject to a severe climate. It is bordered on the north by Norway, on the northwest by Sweden, on the southwest by the Gulf of Bothnia, on the south by the Gulf of , and on the east by Russia. Its area is 130,559 square miles, of which the Åland Islands, an archipelago at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia, constitute 590 square miles. About one-thir ....