 Official cultural flag (since 2022)[1] | |
 Map of areas settled by Forest Finns. | |
| Total population | |
| Unknown | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Norway and  Sweden | |
| Languages | |
| Historically Finnish (Värmland Savonian) Now Norwegian and Swedish | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (Lutheranism) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Finns |
Forest Finns (Finnish: Metsäsuomalaiset, Norwegian bokmål: Skogfinner, Norwegian nynorsk: Skogfinnar, Swedish: Skogsfinnar) were Finnish migrants from Savonia and Northern Tavastia in Finland who settled in forest areas of Sweden proper and Norway during the late 16th and early-to-mid-17th centuries, and traditionally pursued slash-and-burn agriculture, a method used for turning forests into farmlands. By the late 18th century, the Forest Finns had become largely assimilated into the Swedish and Norwegian cultures, and their language, a variety of Savonian Finnish (Värmland Savonian dialect), is today extinct, although it survived among a tiny minority until the 20th century. Descendants of the Forest Finns still live in Sweden and Norway.
- ^ "Skogfinner har nå fått eget flagg". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). 29 December 2022. Archived from the original on 20 April 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2022.