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The happiest place on earth

Finnish Lapland in numbers

3 million saunas

8 seasons in a year

200 words for snow

52 days when the sun doesn’t come up

111 nights of aurora borealis

Husky sledding over a snow-covered swamp somewhere near the border with Sweden, sun streaming through the trees, it’s not hard to see why Finland was recently named the World’s Happiest Country, topping the UN report for the third year running. Speeding through the silent forests of Lapland, feeling like the only person in the world, I find myself

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