Current season, competition or edition: 2023-24 Koripallon I-divisioona season | |
| Sport | Basketball |
|---|---|
| No. of teams | 12 |
| Country | Finland |
| Promotion to | Korisliiga |
The Koripallon I-divisioona is the second tier professional basketball league in Finland. [1] The teams play playoffs [2] for promotion to the Korisliiga.
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, opposite Estonia. Finland covers an area of 338,145 square kilometres (130,559 sq mi) and has a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish and Swedish are the official languages, with Swedish being the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to boreal in the north. The land cover is predominantly boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes.
Helsinki is the capital, largest and most populous city in Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the Uusimaa region in southern Finland and has a population of 674,963. The city's urban area has a population of 1,360,075, making it by far the most populous urban area in Finland and the country's most important centre for politics, education, finance, culture and research. Helsinki is located 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Tallinn, Estonia, 400 km (250 mi) east of Stockholm, Sweden, and 300 km (190 mi) west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has close historical links with these three cities.
Finns or Finnish people are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group native to Finland.
The Finland national football team represents Finland in men's international football competitions and is controlled by the Football Association of Finland, the governing body for football in Finland, which was founded in 1907. The team has been a member of FIFA since 1908 and a UEFA member since 1957.
Pyhäranta is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of 1,927 and covers an area of 291.75 square kilometres (112.65 sq mi) of which 148.5 km2 (57.3 sq mi) is water. The population density is 13.43 inhabitants per square kilometre (34.8/sq mi).
Mäntsälä railway station is located in the town of Mäntsälä, Finland, approximately 60 kilometres (40 mi) from Helsinki Central railway station.
Haarajoki railway station is located in the district of Haarajoki, in Järvenpää, Finland, 40.2 kilometres (25.0 mi) north of Helsinki Central railway station.
Hyvinkää railway station is located in Hyvinkää, Finland, approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Helsinki Central railway station. It is situated between the stations of Jokela and Riihimäki. It is one of the original stations of Helsinki-Hämeenlinna railway, which was completed in 1862. With Järvenpää railway station, it is one of two still operational stations of original main track.
Finnish is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland. In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli are official minority languages. The Kven language, which like Meänkieli is mutually intelligible with Finnish, is spoken in the Norwegian county Troms og Finnmark by a minority group of Finnish descent.
Åland is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland. Receiving its autonomy by a 1920 decision of the League of Nations, it is the smallest region of Finland by both area (1,580 km2) and population (30,129), constituting 0.51% of Finland's land area and 0.54% of its population. Its only official language is Swedish and the capital city is Mariehamn.
Nastassia Kinnunen is a Finnish biathlete and cross-country skier who has competed since 2005. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she finished 11th in the 4 x 5 km relay, 42nd in the individual sprint, 45th in the 30 km, and 54th in the 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit.
Ainola railway station, formerly Kyrölä railway station, is a Helsinki commuter rail station in the town of Järvenpää, Finland. The station is served by Helsinki commuter rail R- and T-line trains. Trains to Helsinki depart from track one and trains to Riihimäki depart from track two.
Saunakallio railway station is a Helsinki commuter rail station in the town of Järvenpää, Finland, 39 km north from the Helsinki Central railway station.
Sanna Mirella Marin is a Finnish former politician who served as prime minister of Finland from 2019 to 2023 and as the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) from 2020 to 2023. She was a Member of Parliament from 2015 to 2023. She was re-elected as member of parliament in April 2023 but resigned from her position in the Finnish parliament to become a strategic adviser on political leaders' reform programmes in the Tony Blair Institute in September 2023.
Sale is a grocery shop chain in Finland, owned by the S Group. The chain was founded in 1989, when the S Group had begun to consolidate its stores under national chains. Initially, the chain was called S-ale. Before that, Sales replaced the former small S-stores that were not part of any chain. As of 2019, the chain includes 308 stores in Finland.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Finland has resulted in 1,499,712 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 11,423 deaths.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Åland, an autonomous region of Finland, in March 2020.
Events from the year 2020 in Finland
Koronavilkku is a COVID-19 app and a digital contact tracing mobile app developed by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare to inform citizens of when they may have been exposed to the COVID-19 virus. The free app became available for download on Google Play and App Store on August 31, 2020, and was downloaded one million times in the first day. By November 5, 2020, the app had been downloaded more than 2.5 million times.
"Dark Side" is a song by Finnish post-hardcore band Blind Channel. It represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, having won Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2021. It reached number one in Finland on 28 February 2021.
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