- Land of Honesty: Reader’s Digest decided to drop 192 wallets into 16 different cities from New York to Mumbai to see how many of them would be returned. The winner of the experiment was Helsinki where 11 wallets out of 12 were returned making the capital of Finland the most honest city in the world.
- Land of Lakes/Islands: There are exactly 187,888 lakes (larger than 500 m²) and 179,584 islands within the territory of Finland.
- Land of the Midnight Sun: In June and July the sun shines all day and all night in the north, not dropping below the horizon.
- Income Dependent Punishment: In Finland, traffic fines are based on two factors: the severity of the offense and the driver’s income. The most expensive speeding ticket ever given is believed to be the one given to Jussi Salonoja in Helsinki in 2003. He was fined 170,000 Euros for driving 80 km/hr in a 40 km/hr zone.
- No Pay-phones Please: There are no public payphones in Finland because Finns have over 5 million mobile phones (the Finnish population is 5.4 million).
- Leave the Cent Home: Finland observes rounding rules under which cash payments are rounded to the nearest 5 cent. Due to the rounding rules, one and two cent coins are not widely used in Finland.
- Leave the Lights-on: It is a legal requirement to have your headlights on, whether in summer or winter, in sunlight or darkness, even under the midnight sun!
- Kids Want to Move to Finland: Kids in Finland do not go to School until they are seven years old.
Finland beckons you.
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