Everything You (Don't) Need To Know About FINLAND

I had a lot of fun talking about a brief history of a country - let me know if you're down to see more :)
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[@texdillinger6173]

I love it when you are supposed to say Rovaniemi, you just always mutter "Rovimaami.." hoping no one would notice :D

[@robinviden9148]

Tex Dillinger Oh, we all noticed. I couldn’t stop laughing. 😂

[@sorenti]

When Rovaniemi becomes Roviomam, Roviohuhmhmh, Rovamami, Roviomami (twice), Rovomami and finally just "Romi!"

[@timomastosalo]

In Finland giving personal space is not considered giving permit to be antisocial. It's more like antisocial is intruding the stranger's personal space without a sensible reason. So it's more like the proper social behaviour is to respect the stranger by giving him/her space. And in cities the space is as large as we saw in the picture. And when the bus arrives, the space is deminishing. When the queue is ready, then the rule is that there's a near touch distance to others. Any movement you make on your spot, and there is contact. But it's the situation to be expected in a queue, so nobody is bothered by it. Only the length of the queue is on people's minds then :)

[@RyoFougere]

it is really close to the way here in Japan, and i love that. Actually thinking to go to Helsinki with my wife and child to continue to work in video games. Any advices ?

[@akselimartikkala4793]

Rinaldo Wirz You will be more than fine with English but Finnish is pretty much pronounced the same as Japanese. So that makes it a bit easier to learn. (I am learning Japanese a bit) I don't live in Helsinki but feel free to ask me anything. またね :)

"Go for it", I guess? There's work available at least for the top-tier professionals on the games industry and as far as I know people really love raising their kids here.

[@0Quiwi0]

I was checking if anyone else mentioned this first. Yeah. It's not that we are antisocial. We just don't bother people if we don't have to. If you are antisocial thou, that same "do not bother people" mindset lets you be one more easily

[@petrusinvictus3603]

Give a man his space. We just came from the forest!

[@DerClouder]

Factoids and corrections: -The switch to euro happened almost 17 years ago here in Finland. In 2001 -Helsinki is not cheaper than other cities. It is actually more expensive if you factor in all the expenses of living and mass transit fees. -Up until the 1800:s the capital of the province of Finland was Turku, which is more like what you would expect for a city, and Helsinki was literally a small fishing town in the middle of a swamp(although they had fort Suomenlinna close by). When the Empire of Russia took over, they relocated the capital because Turku was too close to Sweden. -Turku was chosen as the European Culture Capital for the year 2011, and has many excavation sites and locations that you can visit if you are into late Middle Age history. -Turku archipelago is the largest archipelago in the world if measured by the number of islands. -The pictures of people on the bus stops are rare examples. We usually keep our distance to others, but not that much. -Finnish people do not talk much, unless there is something meaningful to say. Small talk is not a thing in Finland. Overall a nice little video :) I hope you visit Finland again in the future!

[@hannes6]

*We switched to euro in 2002

[@ryyb_himself]

Mostly well done with the research, but you keep referring to Swedish-speaking Finns as Swedes which is very wrong. They're just as much Finnish as Finnish-speaking Finns. Åland Islands don't consist "mostly of Swedes", Swedes only make up ~5% of the population there, even though nearly 90% of the population of Åland speaks Swedish as their mother tongue. Also no, the flights from Helsinki don't go to the Swedish Lapland. That would make no sense. Naturally they go to the Finnish part of Lapland :D

[@fiddibelow]

Rybentor not really historicly speaking their as Finnish as a swede

[@ryyb_himself]

What do you mean? What separates them from other Finns "historically speaking", or are you saying all Finns could be referred to as Swedes or even Russians?

[@fiddibelow]

The Swedish speaking parts of Finland are haplogroup l1 Norse geneticly Swedish norwegian

[@fiddibelow]

You are a mix between Russian and Norse yes

[@fiddibelow]

rigegs i can dissprove you Fairly easely.ITS the same line as the russian finno ugrics they also claim to be the oldest people of europe and pure.

[@Kelopio]

Could you make more of these? I like the idea of learning loads about a country in one video.

[@kfj9905]

Geography now?

[@Opuskrokus]

Finland- most metal bands per capita.

[@Jxw238]

Opuskrokus yep XD

[@niilohiltunen1716]

Can’t confirm. That’s just a stereotype, I don’t listen to metal. I only know two people who do (I’m finnish) EDIT: now I listen to metal myself too. :D

[@Heksu99]

not about listeners but the number of bands

[@sotur1456]

Niilo, i know a lot of people who slowly started listening to heavier music (including myself). Children and youth may listen to rap/pop or whatever but adults most likely listen to rock/metal.

[@xooperz]

+Niilo - ootpas hyvä englannissa

[@timomastosalo]

The beaches are used - but in the summer time :) But when the sea is frozen, people can ski there, and go ice fishing: drill a hole, and lure the fish.

[@LahnaFX]

Torille?

[@ghy201]

LahnaFX torille.

[@jaakko_majava4222]

Torille

[@4N9vxO3WnK]

Mää tuon kaljat

[@mahtavapaska3570]

LahnaFX torilla tavataan

[@kari865]

torille.

[@brotherboard3920]

>pronouncing Rovaniemi as roviamani 🤔

[@user-oo8oj1hl8k]

also rovimami

[@thegreencactus6072]

I prefer hespoop

[@j-p]

Rovymommy

[@oippari4004]

NANI?

[@kviaak7979]

Try enough different ways of pronouncing it and you will eventually nail it

[@elchungo5026]

Ussr: haha look Finland looks like an easy target Finland: our songs stop ur mines Ussr: I SURRENDER

[@hippugamer6689]

Winter war be like Snow: shouts PERKELE Ussr: NANI

[@Kenruli]

@@hippugamer6689 Nani? Isn't that Japanese? You should wrote: Kakiye

[@hippugamer6689]

@@Kenruli i know / tiiän

[@thesuomi8550]

Wow that Rovaniemi pronunciation was so bad (like actually)

[@1hminen]

:Ddd hajosin sille

[@thesuomi8550]

Ihminen :D rovimami tai jotai sinne päi

[@elderscrollsswimmer4833]

@@thesuomi8550 vai oliko se rouva Niemi?

[@johnson941]

I travelled to Helsinki for 5 days recently, and it was so convenient to have Swedish translations all over the city, since Swedish is so close to Danish. Also, in my experience, Finnish people (at least in Helsinki) does not seem so afraid of talking to other people as in the photos showcased. The Finnish people was incredibly helpful and polite, but I did not notice that they would talk less than what I'm used to. Helsinki was a fantastic city, and I would very much like to go there again.

[@MagS258]

If you go by land area, the largest city in Finland would actually be Inari, which clocks in at about twice the size of Rovaniemi

[@tamu7243]

that buss thingy is just a general Nordic thing. We do that in Norway and Sweden too. Especially in the morning.

[@MartieD]

Tamu Audwodia That picture looked weird though. Swedish bus stops often look less organised.

[@Vanellustrades]

denmark too

[@tagged581]

MartieD it looks like a clusterfuck in the bigger cities

[@Blockhaj]

Ye its defiantly a Nordic thing. Dont know about Denmark though.

[@Luredreier]

Sure it's a Nordic thing, but seriously, even *we* don't have *quite* that much space between eachother at the bus stop... Half that distance? Perhaps, but that's a touch more then even we do...

[@StarClay666]

As someone from Åland/Aland Island, him talking about it makes me happy.

[@vdagr8795]

it doesnt belong to finland

[@StarClay666]

@@vdagr8795 *bruh*

[@Pahis1]

I love all of your 12 pronunciations of Rovaniemi ;)

[@dickursby1725]

Make a video about the "Torilla tavataan "phenomenon." The world needs to know.

[@elijahking728]

i thought it said tortilla

[@Ritaaw1]

@@elijahking728 tortillat avataan

[@lemao_squash4486]

"any international flight will end you up in helsinki..." *wrong* Helsinki doesn't have a commercial airport, however Vantaa right next to it does and it houses the Helsinki-Vantaa airport

[@maxfi878]

Urho Drinks Water smartass

[@Mercilessonion]

True, it's quite a distance

[@Caldera01]

The origin of Finnish personal space has actually to do with old finnish paganism where one is meant to keep their beliefs to themselves and worship various spirits and entities in the nature. Since a lot of the pagan traditions survived to the modern lutheran church, the tradition of keeping to oneself is still being practiced. This is why it is concidered extremely bad manners to talk about religion for instance in the open public, or butt into someone elses space, since you have no idea if he's going through some ritual to honour the spirit of Ukko, or Tapio, the king of the forests in his head. This is also why you won't find any synthethic holy sites before christiandom in Finland. All the holy sites of Finnish paganism were rocks, forests and lakes as well as ones own sauna, afterall, why would a God of Thunder care about some structure made by mortal men? However, I could go on a huge rant on the importance of a Sauna to the finnish culture, so better stop short.

[@moversti92]

Interesting, thanks.

[@niilohiltunen1716]

You made it! 😛 Ok, you had good effort on the pronounciation, but I understand that it’s impossible for a Brit. By the way, we were actually the first country to switch to Euro, so it wasn’t just 10 years ago. If you ask me ”Is Finland more Swedish or Russian, based on the fact that it’s been part of both?” I’d say definitely more Swedish. Places and signs have names in Finnish and Swedish, but you won’t find any Russian here. Also other than language, (swedish is obligatory in school) Finland is a nordic country and a western country, as well as an EU country, as Russia doesn’t qualify for any of these. But Sweden on the other hand does. I’m a Finnish teenager and I know the basics of Swedish, and therefore also Norwegian and Danish. Me and my friends use a bit of Swedish just for fun, and we also sometimes make fun of Swedes and even Finnish-Swedes. The center of Helsinki is either the main railway station or Esplanadi (the two streets with a park between them). Although some people consider it to be an other place, e.g Aleksanterinkatu. Three of the four biggest Finnish cities are in the Helsinki metropolitan area, in Finnish we call it the capital city area. It consists of Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Kauniainen (which is completely surrounded by Espoo). The population of the area is over a million. The ferris wheel is shit. Thanks for making a great video! And hopefully I’m a good representation of the Finns’ English speaking skills! Btw, fun fact: Finland has more tanks than the rest of the nordics + Ireland combined. We’re the shield for all the other nordic countries (before russia).

[@FukUNerd]

haha always interesting when I see Finnish people or nordic people in general speaking English because they do it even better than most Americans and Brits a lot of the time

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

Niilo - it's neither. Russia and Sweden are Indo European and Finland is uralic

[@ryyb_himself]

Ancient languages and history - He was clearly talking about the countries, not the languages.

[@niilohiltunen1716]

Ancient languages and history I wasn’t talking about languages.

[@nikolaiblm1255]

Do you expect me to read that?

[@EchelonIV]

As a Finn, it's a bit funny that those "centrals" you mark over London and Rome are actually areas the same size or bigger than Helsinki. And by no means different. Remember that Helsinki is a dense city of only around 0.6M people... how does London or Rome relate to that? Big, aye? In practice, the central area of Helsinki is pretty much whatever you find around the railway station in a 2-5 km radius. That's the city center. It's not a metropolitan, just a city.

[@kyleworlitz4617]

I love your enthusiasm. I’ve been fascinated by The Winter War since childhood. Inspiring story.

[@Donutbigboy]

Oh toycat and Finland it never gets old

[@CreativeHuckleBerry]

Just to mention, there are over 10different swedish dialekts in finland, moustly you can find all of them in Österbotten. If you ever are planning to go to the Swedish part of Finland, there is a small place called "Kimo" and you could visit the museum "Kimo Bruk", it hadd a really important part with Sweden back in the days. Tänkt bara säg he, ha in bra dag! "Just wanted to say that, have a good day!

[@mrhappy623]

This new Mythology with Toycat series is great!

[@HarryPotterFreakLena]

right on time! I'm applying for an Erasmus spot in Finland and now I can use lots of interesting facts in my motivation letter!

[@electrorganix]

thank you for a great video, cheers :)

[@mythical6510]

My granfather fought in the winter war for finland, he has told my family a lot of stories about it. Sadly i dont remember much since i was pretty young, im only a little finnish (swedish and finnish) but i still appreciate the video :)

[@g.m.s2559]

My grandfather too, he died for Finland. He was a Swedish-speaking Finn. Love from Norway

[@redX111t]

I think biggest city in Finland used to be Pudasjärvi, but they made some changes in 2006 and Rovaniemi is now the biggest city in Finland and Europe. Also I think it is bit wrong to say that "Åland island consists of Swedish people", they speak Swedish but they are Finnish nationals, they don't have Swedish citizenship. Only small fraction of people living there are Swedish nationals.

[@jamesdavison1786]

Hi Andrew, great video as always, but did you realise we are nearly at 50K subs. Could you livestream the countdown

[@molexi6537]

Wasn't expecting this... I'm glad that I just made some coffee and bought some chocolate from Fazer

[@mlgsty8880]

Fun fact there are towns named: HolyCoast, HolyLand and NewTown just inside 30km zone in south-west part of Finland. Oh also there is small village called "Helsinki" in that area. (Less than 100 people live there) I think its pretty funny how this small zone has such funny names for places. And yes I did directly translate these names as they dont have official names in english.

[@finnsalsa9304]

Omigosh! This was an awesome video! Paljon kiitoksia! 💖

[@ernestkovach3305]

This was very educational, informative and entertaining. Thank you sir.

[@holoholopainen1627]

He is Good !

[@maxfi878]

Cool that you're making a video about my country! Greetings from Vantaa, Finland!

[@ernestkovach3305]

I admire your intellihgence and the way you explain matters very well & clearly.

[@mikeyesudas4191]

I love the Finnish landscape. It has that beautiful mixture / balance of lakes and land.

[@jerenurminen6075]

You said every name wrong except Åland and Helsinki.

[@maxfi878]

And Finland

[@Sipunak]

MaxFI mutta Finland ei ookkaan suomea

[@maxfi878]

Al12eksi03 No ei ole kyllä Ålandkaan.

[@johnvictorengland7703]

That's because Finnish is not pronounceable for anyone who doesn't speak Finnish or Estonian.

[@holoholopainen1627]

Do You know the English ALPHAPET ? A / E / I - so try to say those !

[@nonotyou4472]

You should watch a finnish movie called Tuntematon Sotilas translated to Unknown soldier its in finnish but maybe you can find it with english text

[@Mitscon]

One interesting thing to mention is that Finland is presumably the only country in Eurozone to not use 1 and 2 cent coins.

[@abiplaysx]

I love your enthusiasm💜

[@fivestarvegetable4244]

I've been swimming at one of the beaches in Helsinki in June!

[@johnlabus7359]

I've been to the beach in Helsinki during August and it was quite warm and busy!

[@vilzupuupaa4680]

Thanks for teaching about my homecountry.

[@skalet66a]

Quite impressive work! I bet not many Finns would have managed to make an equally knowledgeable video.

[@kacee3472]

The bus stops in Finland must be amazing like I bet they don't have random people smoking cigarettes who just sit down next to you and get the smoke in your face or people who just start random conversations with you waiting at the bus stop all the time.

[@thesuomi8550]

Kacee yeah noone comes and talks to random ppl on bus stops or anywhere else. Also if you're sitting on the bench while waiting your bus, you can be sure noone will come and sit down on that bench :D

[@maxfi878]

There are smokers.

[@kacee3472]

MaxFI I'm sure there are smokers, that's just a thing some thing people do, but I'd assume they don't literally sit down uncomfortably close to a person on a bench waiting to get a bus while smoking so the wind blows smoke in the other person's face even though there are other places they could sit, and then sometimes even start talking to them (has happened to me before while waiting to get a bus home from school)

[@thesuomi8550]

Kacee they never sit if they are smoking

[@kacee3472]

Okay Finnish people are just officially better in my opinion that Americans (Floridians to be specific) they sound so respectful compared to everyone I've met haha

[@dressrosa1918]

Nice interesting video like. Can you also make videos like this about the Baltic and Balkan countries.

[@MrOceMcCool]

Our family have a house in Finland East of Umeå (a city in northern Sweden in the coast of the baltic sea)

[@cfine2923]

I love ur channel

[@keipou6011]

My great grandmother's apartment on Mannerheimintie (like the most known street in Helsinki) was 25~ square meters, and it sold for 520 000 euros, so I wouldn't say Helsinki is a cheap place to live in

[@holoholopainen1627]

Main St of Helsinki ! Trams running on It - No need for Car or METRO ! Less than 30 minutes from Downtown !

[@_GatoradeMeBitch]

I am finnish, so i accept calling this biased, but... Keeping in mind wwii and the cold war, the location of Finland was very important for both sides, Would have made a huge NATO influence on the north, right on their border, and for soviets it would have been an amazing increase in control of baltics and they could have easily spread communism to northern countries overall. It happened to baltics, they fell under communists and now they're in NATO. Also, two wars from one of the largest military in the world, and never got wide support from any country except Sweden, and we're still fucking independent? A country of 5 million people? With a casual army and shitty influence & industry compared to southern Europe? Makes no sense.

[@timomastosalo]

One reason why Aland (Åland) Islands were given to Finland by the League of nations, is that it had been part of Finland more than a century, during the Russian rule. So I think the international community just didn't want to change the situation with a paper. Why they didn't let the locals vote what they want to choose? Well, at those times it wasn't yet very much in 'fashion' in politics. Maybe the greater powers were afraid their minorities would like to 'skip country', if the Aland people would vote themselves out of Finland, showing bad example of too much independence.

[@MrAapasuo]

Theres that and the fact that if Sweden pushed its claim on the islands, then finland would in turn demand same treatment to Tornio valley (the valley where swedish-finnish border is) which has lot of Finnic people

[@timomastosalo]

@kim a I am not saying anything: I only wrote :) I added the real Åland there in the beginning. But this comment was in English - if not educated in the topic, they will say Åland and Aland just the same. For English speakers: Åland (Aland in English) is said like 'Awlund'. The circle on top of the A/a is a small o, so you say it s such: the o of 'sport & ¨the sound in 'awe'. Awe would be writen Å/å in Swedish. And this one letter alone means a river - it's an awe (å) to behold :) The lund I wrote there, is the best version in English, when the vowel is said close to fAther, just short in this 'lUnd'. Americans could spell it 'lond' too.

[@timomastosalo]

@kim a But that was why I wrote Aland.

[@qwertylello]

From an Italian: I definitely confirm you that was the right choice for Rome centre. In addition, great video

[@floridamanryan4328]

I love the biggest cities by land area because it's usually not at all what you expect. For example, if guessing the biggest land city in FL, you'd likely guess Miami, Tampa, Orlando, but it's actually Jacksonville (also the biggest in the USA, fun fact)

[@Teutonius88]

18:05 social distancing before it was cool.

[@NowAndyPlays]

have you heard about the sami languages?

[@noodles9003]

Saami?

[@richardw3404]

Spaghetti englanniksi sami

[@Akseli-ro3dq]

The poor Finnic languages being lost, Russia is a big reason due to most of those groups being in Russia, Sami, Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian and even Karalian are the only ones that aren’t really in danger of being exstinct. I wish I could learn some of those languages so I could help keep the population

[@rld6469]

You don't actually have to go all the way North to see the Northern lights. I managed to see them in South Karelia. Once. After living there eighteen years. Think they're definitely more common further North. Point stands, you can see them in the South too sometimes!

[@milo20060]

Nice finally real info about Finland. I suggest you watch the newest unknown soldier (which is about continuation war) and is highly respected here. Not sure though if it already has English subs (possibly). It is really well made and it can be quite emotional. Interesting to know you know so much without being Finnish :O. Respect

[@gotham61]

You should check out some of the strangeness on the Dutch Belgian border, especially around the town Baarle-Nassau

[@thesuomi8550]

gotham61 he has done that I think

[@Creekfull]

Rovaniemi is a municipality as well as a city. I think you mistook one for the other. I'm not sure which is the largest city, but wasn't Kiruna (Sweden) the largest city by area in the EU at some point?

[@raskesvenne7005]

Do a video like this, but about sweden!

[@jblitz1556]

That meme at the end was fantastic.

[@logany6079]

Nice 👍🏻

[@leonengine4604]

Suomi Mainittu. Torilla Tavataan!

[@eqhsw3979]

Ai lahes

[@teijaalanko5165]

Juu. Nyt mentiin'..🔊🔊😆🤣💃🌏👋🌅

[@koff41]

Prkl 17:13 i se my homet town I gonna take the first plane from Stockholm and rush to Kuusamo square.

[@douglaskrueger3755]

I love Finland. Visit Savonlinna!

[@danihennessy8988]

my mums best friend is a finn when I was a kid and he was drunk he always said: "Your father knows nothing, but my father does because he was in the finish winter war!!!"

[@ibx2cat]

haha

[@holoholopainen1627]

Many stories... Untold ! Thanks for this one !

[@mahtavapaska3570]

Im finnish/swedish

[@mahtavapaska3570]

ingopini1 do you want to be

[@oursavior9883]

Can you do a video about Switzerland? It's such a unique country and the only one of it's kind in the world.

[@fruit5003]

That would be pretty interesting indeed

[@drifzyy]

yes

[@bonboncitto6031]

Did you get this information from cgp grey

[@auvo_yt]

Bestiality is legal in FInland... Well if the animal doesnt get hurt...

[@eliasg.2427]

What is wrong with you

[@retak4110]

Another important fact: It is the country in Europa with the most forest cover as % of area. (I think it was over 77%)

[@jermuhh3359]

Finnish also created Molotov's cocktail, to fight against the Russian army's tanks. They gave the name Molotov's cocktail, because of Russian foreign minister Vjatšeslav Molotov said that Russian air force only dropped food supplies to Finland. (They were called Molotov's bread baskets)

[@oliverm257]

My English teacher come from Finland but live in Sweden.

[@theunusualdispenser9474]

Must be nice to have Kimi Räikkonen giving you english lessons :D

[@oliverm257]

Yes

[@theunusualdispenser9474]

+NO. 1 yes.

[@nippleninja255]

I have a teacher who's from Russia and teaches French in Finnish. I have no idea how she does it.

[@ArmeniaDbest]

NippleNinja2 holy shit dude, my high school french teacher was russian from Abkhazia living in Cali teaching french and Spanish

[@vibbe2525]

I'm really nordic, i live in sweden whit finish /danish grandparents. My grandma spoke finlandssvenska and to me it's a really cute dialekt,

[@Jxw238]

Mattias Viberg god damn Danes...

[@vibbe2525]

James Rude!

[@Jxw238]

Mattias Viberg Those damn Danes...

[@vibbe2525]

James why? Joke? Or do you hate danes?

[@Jxw238]

Mattias Viberg those darn Danes...

[@Larsholden702]

The nordic countries aren't a frozen hellscape all year around. We can use the beaches during summertime. ;)

[@diamondsarenotforever8542]

Summers can be very hot too. This year too hot.

[@meridesiree7940]

I'd really like a video like this on Sweden as well...

[@mikrokupu]

Finnish Lapland gets a LOT of tourists these days, you see groups of Asians taking selfies with cute reindeers. Direct scheduled flights from Gatwick too ;)

[@thatguynash9336]

18:05 thats looking really familiar right now...

[@iloalvi]

10:18 "Bigger then your city" Jokes on you, i live in Rovaniemi

[@thesuomi8550]

*PART 2* (borders?)

[@elderscrollsswimmer4833]

The golf-course between Finland and Sweden for example. Like want to play golf in two countries at the same time? Or that lighthouse on a rock-island in between making a weird border there. Nordics have a treaty allowing even greater freedom than Schengen... of course, it also helps the Sami in Finland, Sweden and Norway to herd their reindeer not having to worry about borders.

[@Malkuth-Gaming]

fun fact.. Rovaniemi, Lappland is the largest city in Europe by area, a couple of years ago. That would have been the Swedish town of Kiruna, Lappland :P

[@decorn2542]

Do a video on Hungary.

[@eiki396]

I would say that Finnish price range is about same to Sweden.

[@koff41]

Nope, I am always broke when i am in Finland. :D

[@indecisive.dice.roll.325]

As good as Geography Now's video on Finland!

[@B1gLupu]

Rovaniemi is the biggest city becaus the "city" area and the "countryside" merged because both were just "Rovaniemi", so it was just easier. "The city and the surrounding Rovaniemen maalaiskunta (Rural municipality of Rovaniemi) were consolidated into a single entity on 1 January 2006. "

[@TibeXi]

You can take off the "(Don't)" part of the title - this is a pretty good summary.

[@ahtiulanen6122]

Helsinki isn't always been our capital, Turku was before it burned down

[@user50a5]

10:17 "Bigger than your city... " but I'm from Rovaniemi

[@hippugamer6689]

Nice in from Ranua its close to Rovaniemi

[@Luis-fv6xf]

Do one about Portugal please

[@Minecratify]

Talk about sweden. Nice video tho! Nice to shine light upon us Nordic/Scandinavian people. Sweden sent very many vulountery troops and tons of equipment to finland in the winter war. Wait the city of Kiruna in Sweden call them self the world in land area biggest city so that's weird

[@alvarla]

2001 (first in 1999) is when we got euros (joined EU in 1995 I believe)

[@NestoriWasTaken]

18:22 that place looks familiar

[@chrismoderate3495]

Do a video on The Great Northern War.

[@pylonbuffering8523]

you ran a website when you were 11 years old???

[@christopherellis2663]

My brother rang me from R., back in the '70s... Åland

[@UWGNick]

As a Finn... Yeah, we lost Karjala, but only because we ran out of bullets. We were throwing rocks at the end!

[@holoholopainen1627]

UWG Nick Ran away from bullets ? Was this - What You Tried to say ? At Viipuri - The ammunition storege - Guard didnt open The Gates...

[@aavaj2274]

00:07 what? There does?