[Update 7.12 at 07:00] Dearest people of Finland, I hope you’ve had an amazing #Suomi100 🇫🇮 celebration! 🎉 This 100 reasons post for the 100 year anniversary has just passed 100k views and I’m just overwhelmed at the response! 🙏

So in honour of this milestone here are 10 bonus reasons, based on popular suggestions, as to why Finland is the most kick-ass country in the world!

101. Finnish ice hockey commentators provide the opposite problem to football commentators (#58). They speak so quickly that you have absolutely no idea what they’re saying… “taivasvarjelemitäsieltätuleesieltätuleemaaaaaaaaaali!”

102. When you’re abroad and take a shower, but only a small drip of water comes out and you wish you were back home in Finland with its endless supply of high-pressured hot water. 🚿

103. Everyone has that one friend who always asks you to bring snus back from Sweden and you feel like a Nordic drug mule.

104. Finns know that there is only one thing in life better than sauna. It’s called savusauna.

105. When you want to get drunk but have no desire to go out to a bar and talk to people, so you just kalsarikännit by yourself.

106. Even if you do go out, it’s totally ok if you partied too hard because tomorrow is just normipäivä.

107. Whenever you hear Den Glider In you immediately think “95, never forget” 🏆

108. The chills you get from hearing the opening to Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia.

109. No matter what, you will get through every single handshake at Linnan juhlat. 🤝

110. And at the end of the day this is Finnish life. And that’s 50/60.