National Landscapes of Finland

As national landscape ( Finnish kansallismaisema , Swedish nationallandskap ) are in Finland designated landscapes, where special symbolic value for the history, culture and nature of the country is given. In 1994 the Finnish Ministry of the Environment published an official list of 27 national landscapes in Finland. The selection is purely symbolic and has no practical meaning associated with it.

List of the national landscapes of Finland

• Maritime Helsinki
• Porvoonjoki river valley and Porvoo old town
• Tapiola
• Snappertuna - Fagervik
• Pohja ironworks
• Cultural landscape in the Aurajoki river valley
• Archipelago
• Cultivated landscape of Sund
• Köyliönjärvi -See
• Cultural landscape on Rautavesi -See
• Tammerkoski rapids
• Cultivated landscape in Hämeenkyrö
• Imatrankoski - rapids
• Castle Olavinlinna with Pihlajavesi -See
• Os Punkaharju
• Heinäveden reitti waterway
• Väisälänmäki mountain
• Mount Koli
• Hill villages of North Karelia
• River Kyrönjoki and arable plains in southern Ostrobothnia
• Kvarken Archipelago
• Hailuoto Island
• Natural and cultural landscape on the Oulankajoki River
• Aavasaksa mountain and Tornedalen
• Pallastunturi -Fjells
• Utsjoki valley

Web links

• Finnish Ministry of the Environment: Kansallismaisemat (Finnish) (accessed May 31, 2014)