inland is a Nordic nation in Northern Europe. Its official name is the Republic of Finland. It shares boundaries with Russia to the east, Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west. To the south, it faces Estonia and the Gulf of Finland. Finland is home to 5.6 million people and has a land area of 338,145 square kilometers (130,559 sq mi). The major city and capital is Helsinki. Ethnic Finns make up the great majority of the population. The official languages are Swedish and Finnish, with 5.1 percent of people speaking the latter as their mother tongue and 84.9 percent of people speaking the former. The climate of Finland is continentally humid in the south and boreal in the north.s