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Finland

In Finland's first election under the new law, in 1907, voters sent 19 women to parliament. They were the first women elected to any parliament in the world.

Five things to know about Finland

In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the easy countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.

  1. Where it is. It's Finland, in the far north of Europe, between Sweden and Russia. See Finland on a map.
  2. Santa Claus has his official hometown in its Lapland, on the Arctic Circle, and its capital is Helsinki.
  3. It has more than three million saunas, enough for everyone in the country to take one at the same time.
  4. This country has about 188,000 lakes.
  5. In 1906 its women became the first in Europe to win the vote, and the first anywhere able to stand for parliament.

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