User talk:IlkkaLK12

Finns
IlkkaLK12 (talk) 10:54, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

I looked at the article "Finns" in English Wikipedia. It's a good article. Being a Finn myself, I can testify it's pretty accurate.

Then I looked at the map! I think it is somewhat misleading: it looks like Finns are all over the world, covering most of Northern hemisphere (USA, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Norway). But the fact is, most Finns live in Finland! Only single digit percentages of Finns live elsewhere (in the other countries I just mentioned)!

I'm not saying somebody made a mistake! I'm just wondering, how could the map be made more accurate? In Russia, most Finns live near the Finnish border - a fact not reflected by the map. In the USA, most Finns live in Minnesota (immigrants chose Minnesota because it most resembled their home country) - another fact not reflected by the map. And so on.

I would like to know, how to get the map fixed? How can I get in touch of the person who created the map? Is there a software tool for editing the map? Is it possible to edit the colors on a sub-country level? Like "state" in the US? Or "oblast" in Russia? In Finnish this is "lääni" or "maakunta". Surprisingly (perhaps), the percentage of Finns in Finland is not 100% everywhere. In some of the coastal areas, there are significant numbers of Swedes. In Åland lääni, the percentage of Finns is close to 0.

And in the north, there are Sami / Saame (I don't know what is the correct English spelling) folks. Sami is a Finnic language, but it's next to impossible to understand by native Finnish speakers.

IlkkaLK12 (talk) 10:54, 15 July 2021 (UTC)