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Finnish Transport and Communications Agency
The Finnish Transport and Communications Agency, known as Traficom, is Finland's national authority for licensing and supervision in transport and communications, formed in 2019 and promoting cybersecurity.
Finnish War (Финляндская война)
The Finnish War (Finska kriget, Suomen sota, Финляндская война), 1808–1809: Russia's conquest of Finland from Sweden after Tilsit, ending with the Peace of Hamina, the Grand Duchy of Finland, and the Porvoo Diet.
Finnmark
Finnmark (Finnmárku, Finmarkku) is Norway's northernmost county, re-established 1 January 2024 with number 56, covering 45,755 km² with about 75,000 people, 18 municipalities, administrative center Vadsø, and borders with Russia and Finland.
Finnmarksvidda
Finnmarksvidda, Norway's largest mountain plateau (vidde), over 22,000 km² in interior Finnmark at 300–500 m; subarctic continental climate, Precambrian gneiss, Weichselian till stratigraphy, permafrost palsas, and Sami reindeer winter pastures.
Finno-Ugric languages
Finno-Ugric languages, the traditional grouping of Uralic languages except Samoyedic, including Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian; term coined by analogy to Indo-Germanic, with ten sub-branches and an increasingly questioned first split from Samoyedic.
Finnøy
Finnøy: island group and former municipality in Rogaland, Norway, merged into Stavanger with Rennesøy on 1 January 2020; center Judaberg, Finnfast tunnels (2009), 157 islands, greenhouse tomato farming, Abel's birthplace. Distinct from Finnøya in Ålesund.
Finnr (crater on Callisto)
Finnr is an 80-km-diameter impact crater on Jupiter's moon Callisto at 15.5°N, 4.3°W, named after a Norse dwarf and approved by the IAU in 1979.
Finns
Finns (suomalaiset) are the people of Finland, defined statistically by Finnish background (a parent born in Finland). Key facts: population 5,652,881 (2025), dual east-west genetic origins, Uralic Finnish language, large North American and Swedish diasporas.
Finns Party
Finns Party (Perussuomalaisten puolue, PS), Finnish populist radical right party founded 1995 from the Finnish Rural Party; led by Timo Soini, then Jussi Halla-aho after the 2017 split, and Riikka Purra; in government 2015 and from 2023.
Finntroll
Finntroll is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki, formed in 1997, that mixes black metal guitars with polka-style folk keyboards and sings troll-themed lyrics mostly in Swedish.
Finola Hughes
Finola Hughes (born 1959, Kensington, London) is an English actress and director, Daytime Emmy winner of 1991, best known as Anna Devane on General Hospital since 1985, originating Victoria the White Cat in Cats, starring in Staying Alive (1983), and playing Anna's twin Alex on All My Children.
Finotonlimab
Finotonlimab (Anyouping, SCT-I10A) is Sinocelltech's humanized IgG4 anti-PD-1 antibody, NMPA-approved in February 2025 for first-line recurrent/metastatic HNSCC with chemotherapy and, with bevacizumab, for HCC.
Finova Capital
Finova Capital is a Jaipur-based, RBI-registered NBFC founded by Mohit and Sunita Sahney in 2015, lending secured MSME and home loans to micro-entrepreneurs in semi-urban and rural India.
Fins
A fin, or extended surface, is a slender projection attached to a hot body to increase surface area for heat transfer, as in heat sinks and heat exchangers.
Finsler metric
A Finsler metric is a function assigning each tangent vector its length, generalizing Riemannian metrics by dropping the quadratic restriction; Paul Finsler introduced it in 1918.
Finswimming
Finswimming, competitive racing with a monofin or bi-fins governed by CMAS; disciplines include surface (snorkel), 50 m apnea, scuba immersion, and open water; speeds reach about 13 km/h; World Games sport since 1981.
Fintech
Fintech, or financial technology, is technology-driven innovation in financial services, spanning payments, lending, insurance, and cryptoassets; the sector generated roughly $650 billion in revenue in 2025.
Fintech Collective
FinTech Collective is a New York-based venture capital and private equity firm specializing in financial technology, founded by Brooks Gibbins and Gareth Jones in 2012.
Fintech in Nigeria
Fintech in Nigeria is the sector of technology companies providing digital financial services, chiefly payments, making up roughly one-third of Africa's total fintech market and home to four unicorns: Moniepoint, OPay, Flutterwave, and Interswitch.
Finty Williams
Finty Williams (Tara Cressida Frances Williams, born 1972, London) is an English actress, daughter of Judi Dench and Michael Williams, voice of Angelina Ballerina, and stage and audiobook narrator.
Finuo
Finuo (菲诺), known abroad as FreeNow, is a Chinese coconut-based plant milk company founded in 2015 in Tongxiang, Zhejiang, whose thick coconut milk supplies Luckin Coffee, KFC, and Heytea.
Fiocchi
Fiocchi is an Italian manufacturer of small-caliber ammunition for hunting, sport shooting, and defense, founded by Giulio Fiocchi in 1876 and headquartered in Lecco, Italy.
Fiona A. Harrison
Fiona A. Harrison is an experimental astrophysicist at Caltech who leads NASA's NuSTAR mission, the first focusing high-energy X-ray telescope in orbit, launched in 2012.
Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple (born 1977), American singer-songwriter and pianist; debut Tidal (1996), albums When the Pawn..., Extraordinary Machine, The Idler Wheel, Fetch the Bolt Cutters; 3 Grammy wins, 11 nominations.
Fiona Bruce
Fiona Bruce may refer to the British BBC presenter and journalist (born 1964; Question Time and Antiques Roadshow host) or to the Conservative politician, MP for Congleton 2010-2024 and UK Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief 2020-2024.
Fiona C. Meldrum
Fiona C. Meldrum is a British materials chemist who holds the chair in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Leeds, known for bio-inspired crystallization research.
Fiona Doetsch
Fiona Doetsch is a Canadian-born developmental neuroscientist and professor at the University of Basel, known for identifying astrocytes in the adult brain as neural stem cells.
Fiona Dourif
Fiona Dourif (born 1981, Woodstock, New York) is an American actress, daughter of Brad Dourif; she plays Nica Pierce and young Charles Lee Ray in the Chucky franchise and Emmy-nominated Dr. Cassie McKay on The Pitt.
Fiona Fullerton
Fiona Elizabeth Fullerton (born 1956, Kaduna, Nigeria), British actress and singer, known as Alice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972) and Bond girl Pola Ivanova in A View to a Kill (1985); later a property investor and Strictly contestant.
Fiona Glascott
Fiona Glascott, Irish actress born 1982 in Waterford, known as young Minerva McGonagall in two Fantastic Beasts films, Rose in Brooklyn, Diane in Episodes, and Judith Jones in Julia.