The national atlases of Finland: The fifth edition, its background and structure

Jaatinen describes four published folios of the fifth edition of the Atlas of Finland. Forestry (234), issued first in 1977 because statistics were available and forestry held a central place in the economy, uses consistent colours for tree species and compound diagrams combining species structure and ownership. He notes subsequent improvements in cartographic technique and text–graphic layout. Population (210) benefited from cooperation with the National Statistical Office. Its automatically produced density maps use the 1970 census, with 2.5-km squares at 1:1 million and partly overlapping circles of about 9-km radius for a smaller-scale map. Agriculture—Special Branches, Fisheries (232–233), published in 1980, covers reindeer husbandry, hunting, fishing, bee-keeping, and fur farming. Its 22 fish-catch cartograms use colour shades to indicate stepwise changes in symbol scale and represent catches on the international Baltic grid of approximately 2,500-km² squares. Public Administration (311) comprises 44 pages of two-colour maps and figures, including 60 maps of administrative divisions and an analysis of administrative centres and their spheres of influence; Jaatinen presents it as a reference source and a basis for administrative planning.