Finland is a little larger than Oregon, and only slightly more densely populated: 16.0/km² vs 15.0/km²; countries as far north as Alaska are generally not "dens

Finland is a little larger than Oregon, and only slightly more densely populated: 16.0/km² vs 15.0/km²; countries as far north as Alaska are generally not "densely populated", but maybe you mentally pictured it to be somewhere in central/western Europe. Homogenity seem more relevant to compare than these factoids, though.