Originally Posted by
ND76
One thing a visitor to the country notices is that pretty much all signage is in both Finnish and Swedish (perhaps owing to the allegiance of Swedish nobility with common Finnish people who threw off Russian rule at the end of the First World War).
Nice trip report! How were Tallinn and Riga? (I prefer Riga, the Old Town is bigger and nicer...)
One clarification, though. The street names etc. are in Swedish because it is the second official language of Finland. If more than 3% (I think that's the threshold) of people in a municipality speak the "other" language, street signs must be in that language too. If the majority are Swedish-speakers (some municipalities on the western coast), the Swedish names are first. Up in Lapland you have signs in Finnish and Saami language.