Mountain hut in wilderness with stars and moon at night during winter, Finland (@ ajliikala/Getty Images)

Mountain hut in wilderness with stars and moon at night during winter, Finland (@ ajliikala/Getty Images)

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• There are more than 187,000 lakes here and 86% of the land is covered in forest.""See more pictures of this wild wonderland
• A popular pastime in this chilly region doesn\t involve wrapping up warm and building snowmen.""In fact it involves taking all your clothes off!
• Although being larger than the UK, with only 5.4 million people this is Europe\s most sparsely populated country.""The facts don\t ‘Finnish\ there
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