ts, chemicals, transport
equipment, iron and steel, machinery, textile yarn and fabrics,
grains

Imports - partners:
Germany 16.2%, Sweden 14.1%, Russia 13.9%, Netherlands 6.2%,
Denmark 4.6%, UK 4.3%, China 4.2% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$6.561 billion (August 2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$251.9 billion (30 June 2006)

Economic aid - donor:
ODA, $850,536,746.4905 (2005)

Currency (code):
euro (EUR)
note: on 1 January 1999, the European Monetary Union introduced the
euro as a common currency to be used by financial institutions of
member countries; on 1 January 2002, the euro became the sole
currency for everyday transactions within the member countries

Currency code:
EUR

Exchange rates:
euros per US dollar - 0.79987 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004),
0.886 (2003), 1.0626 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Finland

Telephones - main lines in use:
2.12 million (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
5.231 million (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: modern system with excellent service
domestic: digital fiber-optic fixed-line network and an extensive
cellular network provide domestic needs
international: country code - 358; 1 submarine cable (Finland
Estonia Connection); satellite earth stations - access to Intelsat
transmission service via a Swedish satellite earth station, 1
Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Finland shares
the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark,
Iceland, Norway, and Sweden)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 186, shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios:
7.7 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
120 (plus 431 repeaters) (1999)

Televisions:
3.2 million (1997)

Internet country code:
.fi; note - the IANA has assigned the ccTLD of .ax to the Aland
Islands

Internet hosts:
1,633,614 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
3 (2002)

Internet users:
3.286 million (2005)

Transportation Finland

Airports:
148 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 76
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 27
1,524 to 2,437 m: 10
914 to 1,523 m: 23
under 914 m: 14 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 72
914 to 1,523 m: 5
under 914 m: 67 (2006)

Pipelines:
gas 694 km (2006)

Railways:
total: 5,741 km
broad gauge: 5,741 km 1.524-m gauge (2,619 km electrified)