What comes from Finland?
Many people don’t know much about Finland when you go abroad. First thing what people know is of course the nature and Lapland. And what I love about our nature, is that it’s near. You can usually just walk outside and you will find a forrest or a park just in few minutes. You don’t have to drive half an hour just to see a tree.
Second thing that people often know is that we love sauna and then there is the weird black stuff we love to eat, salmiakki.
But people don’t always know there is many other things that comes from Finland. First: Moomins. Almost every child has seen them, but not many knows where they come from. Correct answer: Finland.
We finnish people usually love sports and especially winter sports like icehockey and skiing. So of course we have many famous athletes too, like Lasse Viren, Leo-Pekka Tähti, Kimi Räikkönen, Enni Rukajärvi, Antti Ruuskanen, Tero Pitkämäki and of course Teemu Selänne and every other icehockey player. 
And when this amazing athletes competite, we cheer for them and when they win, we celebrate big time. Like now, when Iivo Niskanen won the 15km cross country skiing, they actually change the one of the biggest news paper’s name in eastern Finland for one day to be “the Iivon Sanomat” (Iivo’s news), just to celebrate him.
Many famous brands also comes from Finland and people use them everyday, they just don’t know that they are actually finnish. For example: Nokia, Marimekko, Minna Parikka, Iittala, Fiskars.
And of course the two most important: Santa Claus and Darude, they also come from Finland!
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