Lizards
| Image | Name |
|---|---|
 | Slow worm (Anguis fragilis) |
 | Viviparous lizard (Zootoca vivipara) |
This is a list of reptiles of Finland . There are five species and all are protected by law. Currently Coronella austriaca is classified as vulnerable. [1]
| Image | Name |
|---|---|
| | Slow worm (Anguis fragilis) |
| | Viviparous lizard (Zootoca vivipara) |
| Image | Name | Head (dorsal) | Head (lateral) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Common adder (Vipera berus) |  |  |
 | Grass snake (Natrix natrix) |  |  |
 | Smooth snake (Coronella austriaca) |  |  |
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 a total area of 338,145 square kilometres (130,559 sq mi), including a land area of 303,815 square kilometres (117,304 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. The official languages are Finnish and Swedish; 84.9 percent of the population speak the first as their mother tongue and 5.1 percent the latter. 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.
The Finnish Civil War was a civil war in Finland in 1918 fought for the leadership and control of the country between White Finland and the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic during the country's transition from a grand duchy ruled by the Russian Empire to a fully independent state. The clashes took place in the context of the national, political, and social turmoil caused by World War I in Europe. The war was fought between the Red Guards, led by a section of the Social Democratic Party, and the White Guards, conducted by the senate and those who opposed socialism with assistance late in the war by the German Imperial Army at the request of the Finnish civil government. The paramilitary Red Guards, which were composed of industrial and agrarian workers, controlled the cities and industrial centres of southern Finland. The paramilitary White Guards, which consisted of land owners and those in the middle and upper classes, controlled rural central and northern Finland, and were led by General C. G. E. Mannerheim.
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