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Map of Mariehamn with the pre-1961 territory of the town marked with hatched outline The town was named after the Russian empress Maria Alexandrovna (1824–1880), literally meaning "Marie's Port". Mariehamn was founded on 21 February 1861 around the village of Övernäs , [ 2 ] [ 18 ] in what was at the time part of the municipality of Jomala .
Åland (/ ˈ oʊ l ɑː n d / OH-lahnd, [9] Swedish: ⓘ; Finnish: Ahvenanmaa) is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland.Receiving its autonomy by a 1920 decision of the League of Nations, [1] it is the smallest region of Finland by both area (1,580 km 2) and population (30,129), constituting 0.51% of Finland's land area and 0.54% of its population.
English: Map of Mariehamn, Åland, Finland, with the pre-1961 territory of the town marked with hatched outline. Suomi: Maarianhaminan kaupungin kartta, jossa ennen vuoden 1961 alueliitosta edeltänyt alue korostettu katkoviivalla.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Åland Islands: Åland – autonomous, demilitarized, monolingually Swedish-speaking administrative province, region and historical province of the Republic of Finland. [1] The Åland Islands form an archipelago in the Baltic Sea at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia ...
Mariehamn 11,888 11.81 km 2: 4.6 sq mi 1,007/km 2: 2,607/sq mi Jomala: JM Countryside 5,768 142.73 km 2: ... Map showing the municipalities of Åland. See also
The large islands of Eckerö, Lemland, and Lumparland are separated from Åland and each other by narrow shallow straits. Ninety per cent of the population live on Fasta Åland (the Main Island), also the site of the capital town of Mariehamn. Fasta Åland is the largest island in the archipelago, although its exact size is in some dispute ...
The island is home to the provincial capital Mariehamn. About ninety percent of the archipelago's population lives on Fasta Åland. [ 1 ] Its area is difficult to estimate due to its irregular shape and coastline, but estimates range from 740 square kilometres (290 sq mi) [ 2 ] to 879 square kilometres (339 sq mi) [ 3 ] to over 1,010 square ...
The museum ship Pommern, a four-masted iron-hulled sailing ship built in 1903, is moored in the Western Harbour as an exhibit of the Åland Maritime Museum. [10]Mariehamn's other harbour, the Eastern Harbour (Swedish: Österhamn, Finnish: Itäsatama), is mainly used for smaller leisure boats and yachts, and is one of the largest leisure marinas in the Nordic region.