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Finland landmarks quiz: guess where 11 photos were taken
The 11 places in Finland from the game, with their photos and facts. Play a round first, then read about them below.
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Five photos from Finland. Tap the map for each one and see how far off you were.
Tap the map where you think this is
Where they are
11 on the mapAll 11 places
A white neoclassical cathedral above Senate Square.
Photo: Alvesgaspar / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The capital of Finnish Lapland, on the Arctic Circle, official home of Santa Claus.
Photo: kallerna / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An 18th-century sea fortress spread over six islands off Helsinki.
Photo: Michal Pise, Michal.Pise / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Finland's largest lake, a labyrinth of 14,000 islands.
Photo: Adrián Pérez from Helsinki, Finland / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A perfectly preserved 19th-century groundwood mill village in Finland.
Photo: Mikkoau / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Finnish lake city famous for its ski jumps and Sibelius concert hall.
Photo: kallerna / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Finland's oldest city and former capital, with a medieval castle and cathedral by the Aura River.
Photo: Ninara / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Finland's industrial heartland between two lakes, with red-brick factories on the rapids.
Photo: Tiia Monto / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A log church from 1764, a masterpiece of Nordic wooden architecture.
Photo: Tiia Monto / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Northern Finland's largest city, a technology hub on the Gulf of Bothnia.
Photo: Santeri Viinamäki / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The largest wooden old town in the Nordic countries, famous for lace-making.
Photo: pjt56 / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
Suomenlinna is the furthest south here, 710 km from Rovaniemi at the top of the map. Learn where Verla is and you are close on three photos, because Saimaa and Lahti are both within 90 km of it.
Medium is the most common rating, with four of the eleven photos. Rovaniemi, Verla, Lahti and Old Rauma are rated hard. The easy ones are Helsinki Cathedral, Saimaa and Tampere. Suomenlinna is an 18th-century sea fortress spread over six islands off Helsinki.
The daily in the app mixes photos from all 167 countries in the game, five a day, the same five for everyone.
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How many photos from Finland are in the game?
11. They run from Rovaniemi down to Suomenlinna, and a round picks five at random.
Which photo from Finland is the hardest?
Rovaniemi, Verla, Lahti and Old Rauma, all rated hard. Every 693 km of miss cuts the score in half.
Where is it easiest to get full points in Finland?
Saimaa, with a 60 km radius. A pin anywhere inside it scores the full 5,000.