finland (finnish: "suomi") is a country in northern europe and is a member state of the european union. finland is one of the nordic countries and is also part of fennoscandia. finland is located between the 60th and 70th latitudes north. its neighbours are sweden to the west, norway to the north, russia to the east and estonia to the south, beyond the sea called gulf of finland. most of western and southern coast is on the shore of the baltic sea.