[1] The regions were spatially defined by an expert committee in the 1930's as collections of municipalities. Consequently, the province boundaries follow the delineation of of municipalities in the 1930's including some enclaves, exclaves, and narrow stripes as the province boundaries have not been changed or updated since then excluding the cession of territory after the Second World War. [2] The digital version described here has been prepared by the FMNH. The positional accuracy of the data is estimated to be about 20 meters. Topological consistency ("edgematching") has been confirmed by separating region boundaries (n = 85). [3] The Bio-geographical regions of Finland do not correspond to the European regions. Parts of the two most northern Finnish regions belong to European Alpine zone whereas the rest of Finland belong to the boreal zone. [4] References (in Finnish): - https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suomen_luonnontieteelliset_maakunnat - http://www.luomus.fi/fi/eliomaakunnat

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