Finland–Norway relations
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Finland–Norway relations are the foreign relations between Finland and Norway. The states share the Finland-Norway border.
Both countries established diplomatic relations in 1917, after Finland's independence. Finland has an embassy in Oslo. Norway has an embassy in Helsinki.
For some decades surrounding 1900, many in Norway feared the Finnish immigration and Kven people in Northern Norway, coining the term "the Finnish danger". For a period, interests in Norway wanted to annex parts of Lapland (most notably the "arm" protruding from the north-west and into Storfjord Municipality) as buffer zones. The controversy around Finns in Norway subsided over time, and the land claim never evolved into open conflict.[1]
Both countries are full members of the Nordic Council, Council of the Baltic Sea States, NATO and of the Council of Europe.
Diaspora
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There are around 2,000 Norwegians living in Finland and around 6,665 Finns (15-60,000 including Kvens) living in Norway.[2]
Gallery
[edit]- Embassy of Finland in Oslo
- Embassy of Norway in Helsinki
- Three-Country Cairn is the point at which the international borders of Sweden, Norway and Finland meet
See also
[edit]- Foreign relations of Finland
- Foreign relations of Norway
- Norway–EU relations
- Norwegians in Finland
- Finland–Norway border
References
[edit]- ^ Eriksen, Knut Einar; Niemi, Einar (1981). Den finske fare. Sikkerhetsproblemer og minoritetspolitikk i nord 1860–1944 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 82-00-05574-4.
- ^ Statistics Norway