Can you name the most prevalent countries of origin of foreign-born residents of Finland (2008)?

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Source: Tilastokeskus: Syntymävaltio iän ja sukupuolen mukaan maakunnittain 1990 - 2008
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Rank	Country	Foreign-Born population
1		30 640
2		19 174
3		6 702
4		6 352
5		5 982
6		5 572
7		5 394
8		5 294
9		4 470
10		4 213

Rank	Country	Foreign-Born population
11		3 969
12		3 803
13		3 761
14		3 200
15		2 441
16		2 154
17		1 793
18		1 607
19		1 505
20		1 503
	1 503
(1)	1 503
(7)	1 503
24	1 503
27	1 503
38	1 503
44	1 503
58	1 503
89	1 503

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	Everblue:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 04:15 GMT		34 points
	No... Norway?

	xander:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 04:18 GMT		12 points
	At a certain point, this just became 'name a random country quiz' I like the idea of foreign born quizzes it's interesting to see where people go, and where they are coming from, but the populations moving to Finland are comparatively quite small, I think perhaps a better quiz would be naming the top five or ten places of origin for immigrants to each of the five scandinavian nations

	crazydiamond1to9:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 04:19 GMT		75 points
	Yeah, that surprised me too. Best way to do these foreign-born quizzes is 3-fold: 1) Countries close in proximity. 2) United States. 3) Countries where you think to yourself "I'd hate to live there." That'll usually get about 12-15 of the answers.

	tvfan2:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 04:21 GMT		20 points
	I can't believe I got 16 of these, and a host of bonus answers. One thing I like about these is you actually learn something from them

	triviafanpatriot:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 04:27 GMT		12 points
	I guessed Somalia for the heck of it when I was going through other countries in that region...surprised that it is number 4 while Norway isn't on it.

	gwukelic:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 04:38 GMT		4 points
	How do you do those secret answers like if you type in norway, ireland, hungary, or former yugoslavia?

	NoVan:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 04:41 GMT		12 points
	Seems that Finland is very welcoming to refugees. Good for them.

	gecc:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 05:00 GMT		4 points
	Please accept US for United States.

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	WithShoes:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 05:44 GMT		11 points
	I guess Norweigians are pretty satisfied with their country.

	Twigglet:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 05:58 GMT		12 points
	Not surprised at Somalia at all, Europe is awash with a huge Somali immigrant population. And who would want to leave Norway!

	zeppelinoid:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 06:35 GMT		14 points
	@NoVan: These figures are tiny compared with most Western countries. If you remove Finland's immediate neighbours there are less than 100,000 residents born overseas. As EU/EEA citzens have freedom of movement, this means that Finland is one of its most homogeneous countries.

	zeppelinoid:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 06:37 GMT		29 points
	There would be a lot more residents born overseas, but most of them die of caffeine poisoining within a few weeks.

	Ismitje:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 06:47 GMT		4 points
	Amazing that I would even care about the foreign born population in Finland. Before a few minutes ago, I didn't. But now . . . :)

	SeaCalMaster:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 07:26 GMT		57 points
	Sadly, I did not Finnish with all of the answers.

	WeaselKing1000:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 07:31 GMT		21 points
	If Croatia brings up 'Former Yugoslavia', then Slovenia should as well.

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	toucan:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 10:08 GMT		1 point
	These numbers don't add up: (1) Former Soviet Union (45 799) 2 Estonia 19 174 3 Russia 6 702 44 Latvia (767) (hidden answer) 58 Lithuania (482) (hidden answer) So those 4 former soviet republics add to 27,125, leaving 18,674 for the other 11 post-soviet states, for an average of 1,698 per country. But none of the other 11 make the list. I'd check the source, but I don't read Finnish.

	The_Snakes:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 10:38 GMT		9 points
	Somalians get everywhere!

	WestEndLovely:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 11:58 GMT		28 points
	I was a little surprised that 'Former Yugoslavia' came up as a bonus answer after I entered 'Albania'. It was never part of Yugoslavia! (Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina & Kosovo). x

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	baxx:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 12:52 GMT		12 points
	There was a time not too far ago when all black immigrants was called "Somalian" here in Finland. :)

	Psycho:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 13:10 GMT		22 points
	The first Finland-related quiz!

	Haduken:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 13:17 GMT		9 points
	in the words of Patrick Star, "FINLAND!!!!"

	Hamburger:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 14:46 GMT		8 points
	One reason Norway may not be on the list is that Norway is not a member of the EU, and therefore, its citizens do not have the "right" to freedom of movement. They would need a visa, and a reason to move. Also, Swedish is an official language in Finland, and Norwegian is not. Denmark and Iceland are also very low on the list. Estonia is very high because Estonian and Finnish are related and quite similar languages. I would also guess that a large percentage of the "Russians" moving into Finland are actually Karelians. These are a branch of Finns who became Soviet citizens at the end of WWII when large chunks of Finland were ceded to Russia.

	Roman:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 15:08 GMT		17 points
	Norwegians have the right of freedom of movement. Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Iceland, although not being Eu members have the same immigration regime as EU countries.. The one difference between these four countries are (1) They do not elect delegates to the European Parliament (2) They do not have the same customs and economic regime and (3) They have more control over internal economic systems (Ie. If the banking system collapsed in Iceland if it was an Eu member, they would be s***t to pay, Iceland dosen't want to join the Eu do to fishing controls imposed by Brussels, same with Norway, Switzerland neutrality and Liechtenstein being the Swiss lackey doesn't either. )

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	cf70:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 16:00 GMT		3 points
	somalia and iraq?? that was unexpected !

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	Acronicta:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 18:55 GMT		9 points
	@Hamburger: actually, your theory about the origins of Russian immigrants is patently wrong. When East Karelia was ceded, only 19(!) Finnish citizens remained there. The rest, over 400 000 people, evacuated west and became internal refugees in the remaining Finland. So now there are people with Karelian roots all over Finland, whereas Russian Karelians are people that never lived in the areas that were a part of Finland. Many of the Russian immigrants are Ingrians, though (Finnish roots, completely different story).

	gingersnap:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 19:36 GMT		3 points
	After doing all these foreign born resident quizzes, I can see that people want to get the heck out of China and other South Asian countries. They're listed on each one.

	tbh444:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 20:13 GMT		1 point
	@toucan - I think the earlier comments imply that the 45799 are in addition to the individual country figures - ie they arrived in Finland prior to soviet breakup and so aren't allocated to any one state, whereas the 6702 russians arrived after breakup, so the true figure for russia could be as high as 52k. For this reason one change I would make is that answering russia, estonia (or even kyrgyzstan) should bring up the soviet bonus.