Mackenzie Schmidt is the Home and Travel Editor for PEOPLE. She's worked at PEOPLE for over five years as a writer and editor on the Lifestyle team. Finland has a lot to smile about. The Scandinavian ...

I lived in Finland for 3 years. Even as an international student, I got a taste of why it's the happiest country in the world. Finland has a reputation for being the happiest country in the world. I ...

Once again, Finland has ranked #1 in the UN’s 2020 World Happiness Report, and, as always, it will have come as a surprise to some people. When you compare Helsinki to the likes of California, for ...

It’s always happy hour in Helsinki! Finland was dubbed the world’s happiest nation for the sixth consecutive year in the annual World Happiness Report, released Monday. The list is largely based on ...

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Finland, ranked for the second time the world's happiest country, is launching an unusual tourism campaign that it promises will share its secret. The country's tourism board is holding a contest in ...

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When it comes to happiness, it’s well-known that the Nordic countries regularly score high on surveys of life satisfaction. In fact, Finland has held the top spot in the World Happiness Report’s list ...

The president and prime minister of Finland, a country on the border of Russia, released a statement backing an application for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Thursday ...

HELSINKI — The National Guard’s top officer recently visited Finland as part of a larger Northern European itinerary to strengthen the Guard’s security cooperation ties in the region. The Guard has ...