Looking at a map, Finland seems like a piece of lace, a tunnel riddled with an infinite number of very characteristic lakes.
Finland has, quite rightly, been called the land of lakes: in fact, from the smallest, which is virtually a puddle, to the largest, the Saimma situated in the south, it has tens of thousands of lakes which cover 9.4 percent of the country. This Lake District with its inland archipelagos has been less effected by outside influences than the coastal regions.
Someone once said that there are two dominant colours in Finland, blue and green; the blue of the lakes and the green of the forests. If we add to these colours the white of the snow that for a good part of the year covers Finnish territory, we have named the three national colours of Finland. The snow feeds innumerable rivers which often link the lakes.
One feature which may seem strange in country as flat as that in southern Finland is the way the lakes are on different levels. Sometimes characteristic waterfalls, which the Finns have used for the production of electric energy, are formed by a river flowing rapidly from one lake to another.
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