Finland's UNESCO profile: eight World Heritage Sites and five global geoparks
Background
UNESCO's country profile records that Finland has been a UNESCO member since 1956.
It places Finland in the Europe and North America region and in Group I.
The profile lists 8 World Heritage Sites and 4 cultural practices and expressions of intangible heritage in Finland.
It also lists 5 UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks, 6 entries on the Memory of the World International Register, 2 biosphere reserves and 5 sites under the International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme.
Finland's representation to UNESCO is the Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Finland to the OECD and to UNESCO, based at the UNESCO House in Paris.
The Finnish National Commission for UNESCO sits in the Ministry of Education and Culture.
In plain words
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — The United Nations agency for education, the sciences, culture and communication.
Biosphere reserve Biosphere reserve — A site recognised under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme for balancing conservation with human use.