Finland

Grand Duchy of (called by the natives, Suomen-maa, “land of marshes”), a country of Northern Europe, including (with the exception of part of Lapland) the extreme N. W. portion of the Ru ian empire; length, 600 miles; average breadth, about 240 miles; area, 144,255 square miles; pop. 2,592,778; chiefly Finns and Lapps; capital, Helsingfors.