Finland Solo Female Travel Safety Tips and Advice

On this page you will find first-hand, unbiased, and real safety tips, advice and reviews from women traveling solo, submitted directly from their personal experiences in the country.

Their opinions are unfiltered and submitted independently as part of the Solo Female Travel Safety Index, a ranking of 210 countries and regions based on how safe they are for women traveling solo.

The safety scores range from 1 to 4 with 1 being the safest and 4 being the most dangerous for solo female travelers.

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Finland Country data

We have compiled a few data points below that can help you better understand Finland and have more context when thinking about travel safety.

Official country name: Republic of Finland.

Etymology: Name may derive from the ancient Fenni peoples who are first described as living in northeastern Europe in the first centuries A.D.

Capital: Helsinki.

Independence / foundation: Finland was a province and then a grand duchy under Sweden from the 12th to the 19th centuries. It then became an autonomous grand duchy of Russia after 1809. It gained complete independence in 1917.

Population: 6 million.

Currency: Euro (EUR)
1 USD = 0.91 - 0.93

Time zone: UTC+2

Languages spoken: Finnish (official) 86%, Swedish (official) 5%, Russian 2%, other 7% .

Religions: Lutheran 67%, Greek Orthodox 1%, other 2%, none 30%.

Climate: Cold temperate climate. Potentially subarctic weather, but comparatively mild because of moderating influence of the North Atlantic Current, Baltic Sea, and more than 60,000 lakes.

Real GDP (ppp – purchasing power parity): $274 billion.

Real GDP per capita (ppp): $49,400.

Main airports: Helsinki Vantaa Airport, Turku Airport, Tampere-Pirkkala Airport.

World heritage sites in Finland

There are over 1,100 world heritage sites spread across more than 165 countries. New ones are added every year, and some may be removed from the list for various reasons.

Number of UNESCO listed sites: 7.

Top world heritage sites:

- Petäjävesi Old Church.
- Old Rauma.
- Fortress of Suomenlinna.
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill.
- Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki.
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago.
- Struve Geodetic Arc.

Interesting facts about Finland

- Finland has the highest coffee consumption per capita in the world. Finnish drink around 12 kg yearly.

- Bathing in a sauna is an important part of Finnish culture. There are approximately 2 million saunas in Finland, for a population of 5.3 million.

- Finland is a Nordic welfare state that aims to be carbon neutral by 2035. It was also named the happiest country in the world by the World Happiness Report 2019.

- Finland became the first country in Europe to give women the right to vote and stand for parliament in 1906.

Further reading: N/A.

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About the Solo Female Travel Safety Index

Safety matters to solo female travelers, you told us so in our annual Solo Female Travel Survey, where year after year, women prove that this is their most important concern when traveling solo.

We wanted to do something about it, so we built these country-specific pages where you can find reviews and scores for 7 key variables affecting the safety of women traveling solo.

How to use the Safety Index

On this page, you will find the country score and the personal opinions on safety of other women traveling solo.

You can sort the comments by:

• The level of experience traveling solo of the reviewer (beginner = <5 trips solo, Intermediate = 5 to 10 trips solo, Experienced = >10 trips solo).
• The age of the traveler.
• Whether they are a visitor or local.
• The date they were posted.

The safety scores range from 1 to 4 with 1 being the safest and 4 being the most dangerous for solo female travelers. 

Thus, the lower the score, the safer the country.

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