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| Southern Finland The southern stretch of coastline up to the Russian border, including the capital Helsinki and the historical province of Uusimaa (Nyland) |
| Western Finland The coastal areas, the old capital Turku, inland hub city Tampere and the southern parts of the historical province of Ostrobothnia (Pohjanmaa, Österbotten) |
| Eastern Finland Forests and lakes by the Russian border, including Savonia (Savo) and the Finnish side of Karelia (Karjala) |
| Oulu (Northern Finland) Kajanaland (Kainuu) and northern Ostrobothnia, named after the technology city of Oulu. |
| Finnish Lapland Tundra and reindeer above the Arctic Circle. |
| Åland an autonomous and monolingually Swedish group of islands off the southwestern coast of Finland |
While a convenient and unambiguous bureaucratic division, the provinces ? now formally known as Regional State Administrative Agencies ? do not really correspond to geographical or cultural boundaries very well. Other terms you may hear include Tavastia (Häme), covering a large area of central Finland around Tampere, and Karelia (Karjala) to the far east, the bulk of which was lost to the Soviet Union in World War II (still a sore topic in some circles). In 2010, Western Finland was formally split into "Western and Inner Finland" (for Tampere and the coast near Vaasa) and "Southwest Finland" (the area near Turku).
