Finland–Norway relations
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Finland–Norway relations are the foreign relations between Finland and Norway. The states share the Finland-Norway border.
Both countries established diplomatic relations in 1917, after Finland's independence. Finland has an embassy in Oslo. Norway has an embassy in Helsinki.
For some decades surrounding 1900, many in Norway feared the Finnish immigration and Kven people in Northern Norway, coining the term "the Finnish danger". For a period, interests in Norway wanted to annex parts of Lapland (most notably the "arm" protruding from the north-west and into Storfjord) as buffer zones. The controversy around Finns in Norway subsided over time, and the land claim never evolved into open conflict.[1]
Both countries are full members of the Nordic Council, Council of the Baltic Sea States, NATO and of the Council of Europe.