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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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kökar (pronunciation ⓘ) is an island municipality to the south-east of the Åland archipelago, Finland.. It is also one of the municipalities of Åland. It is reachable by boat from Långnäs on Åland or from Galtby with access to mainland Finland.
Föglö is a group of islands and municipality in Åland, an autonomous territory of Finland. The municipality has a population of 510 (31 October 2024) [2] and covers an area of 1,869.07 square kilometres (721.65 sq mi) of which 1,734.24 km 2 (669.59 sq mi) is water. [1] The population density is 3.78 inhabitants per square kilometre (9.8/sq mi).
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Lågskär (Swedish for "low skerry") is a small island within the Åland archipelago of Finland. It belongs to the municipality of Lemland. It is situated about 24 kilometres (15 mi) south of Mariehamn in the Baltic's Sea of Åland. The main island of Lågskär measures 61 hectares (150 acres) in area.