Due to the nature of Soviet demands, which included the installation of Soviet military facilities on Finnish soil, these negotiations went nowhere.

The first Jew said to have settled on Finnish soil was Jacob Weikam, later Veikkanen, in 1782, in the town of Hamina which was at that point under Russian rule.

The battle was the last Swedish victory on Finnish soil.

The trains are operated by VR personnel while on Finnish soil.

In the fall of 1939, the USSR demanded that the Finnish government cede some territory and allow bases on Finnish soil.

For instance, during the build-up for the Continuation War in 1941, Mannerheim was offered command of all German forces on Finnish soil.

Archaeological evidence of prehistoric warfare is largely incomplete, primarily because prehistoric skeletons, which might bear traces of violent traumas, rarely survive in the Finnish soil.

Therefore, there was a strong feeling that it was better to defend Sweden on Finnish soil.

The best-known British action on Finnish soil was an aircraft carrier strike on German and Finnish ships in the Finnish harbour of Petsamo on 31 July 1941.

This time, the very mention of the word "Mississippi" in a song lyric is meant to convey something vaguely hip and humorous that doesn't travel well beyond Finnish soil.