has just been declared the happiest country in the world by the World Happiness Report - for the sixth year in a row. You might think the recent bitterly contested election and having a 1,340km- (830-mile) long border with Russia, would have taken the edge off the Finns' buoyant spirits, but not a bit of it.Why are they so happy? According to Heli Jimenez of Business Finland: 'Finnish happiness stems from a close relationship with nature and our down-to-earth lifestyle.'Which explains why Tampere, a city where nature comes right into the centre of town, is regularly voted by other Finns as the place they would most like to live. Around 180km (111 miles) north of Helsinki and sitting on a land bridge between lakes Nasijarvi and Pyhajarvi, this is good-mood central – the happiest place in the world's happiest country.
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