In January 2021, the small Finnish city of Salla (pop. 3,407) announced it intended to go head-to-head with cities like Madrid, Jakarta, Istanbul, and Doha to officially bid to host the 2032 Summer ...

Puolanka was in the news for all the wrong reasons, so locals decided to embrace being the worst. Now it’s the most pessimistic town in Finland – and everyone knows its name. As you approach Puolanka, ...

The photographer Maria Lax comes from a northern Finnish town where UFO sightings were common – so she set about looking for answers. Her book Some Kind of Heavenly Fire is published by Setanta Books ...

Salla, which claims to be the coldest town in Finland, has announced a parody bid to host the 2032 Summer Olympics to raise awareness of global warming ©Facebook/Save Salla The town, where ...

It’ll be like this for another four hours. For the 1,900 or so residents of Enontekio, in northern Finland, it’s going to be a long day. It’s the middle of winter, a time when the sunshine’s extended ...

Nokia's share price is now down 85pc from its peak in 2007, the year Steve Jobs unleashed the iPhone Credit: Photo: Alamy Here, in the unremarkable factory town of Nokia, the company still has one ...