Chinese people in Finland (; ) form one of the largest immigrant groups in

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

. As of 2018 there were 12,407 speakers of

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in Finland. About 60% of them reside in the Capital Region (

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Espoo Espoo (, ; sv, Esbo) is a city and municipality in the region of Uusimaa in the Republic of Finland. It is located on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, bordering the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, Kirkkonummi, Vihti and Nurmijärvi ...

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and

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). As of 2018 there were 9,230 Chinese citizens living in Finland. From 1990 to 2017, a total number of 2,460 Chinese citizens had been granted Finnish citizenship.

Notable Finnish people of Chinese descent

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{{Overseas Chinese Ethnic groups in Finland

Notable Finnish people of Chinese descent

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