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Åland is situated in a Finnish archipelago, called the Åland Islands, at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea. It comprises Fasta Åland , on which 90% of the population resides, [ 10 ] and about 6,500 skerries and islands to its east, [ 11 ] of which about 60–80 are inhabited.
The location of Åland An enlargeable map of the Autonomous State of Åland. 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 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 ...
Map of Åland with borders as mentioned in the "Convention on the non-fortification and neutralization of the Åland islands", ratified 1922 (Finnish/Swedish/French). Legend: Red = Border of Finland and Sweden. Blue = Province border of Åland within Finland: Date: 19 April 2006: Source: File:Åland map.png: Author: para: Permission (Reusing ...
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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. The ...
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2007-08-21T16:11:21Z Sémhur 996x1004 (223814 Bytes) {{Information |Description=Political map of the autonomous finnish province of Åland, in english. Shows the national, regional and municipal boundaries about Åland islands. |Source=Own work.