Åland Islands

Åland Islands
Landskapet Åland (Swedish)
Ahvenanmaan maakunta (Finnish)
Åland Islands Landskapet Åland (Swedish); Ahvenanmaan maakunta (Finnish);
	Motto:
	Anthem:
Capital and largest city	Mariehamn; Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 614: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
Official languages	Swedish
Demonym(s)	Ålandic - Ålandish; Ålänning - Åländare; Ahvenanmaalainen
Government	Autonomous region of Finland
• Governora	Peter Lindbäck
• Premier	Katrin Sjögren
Autonomy
• Declared	1920
• Recognized	1921b
Area
• Total	Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). (unranked)
Population
• 2011 estimate	28,355
• Density	Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value).
GDP (PPP)	2007 estimate
• Total	$1.563 billion
• Per capita	$55,829
HDI (2007)	0.967; very high
Currency	Euro (€)c (EUR)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Calling code	+358d
ISO 3166 code	AX
Internet TLD	.axe
	The governorship is an administrative post appointed by the Government of Finland and does not have any authority over the autonomous Government of Åland.; Settled by the League of Nations following the Åland crisis.; Until 1999, the Finnish markka. The Swedish krona (SEK) is also widely used.; Area code 18.; Replacing .aland.fi from August 2006. The .eu domain is also used, as it is shared with Finland and the rest of European Union member states.;

The Åland Islands (Swedish: Åland (pronounced IPA: ['oːland]), Finnish: Ahvenanmaa) form an archipelago in the Baltic Sea. It is at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia and forms an autonomous, demilitarized, monolingually Swedish-speaking administrative province, region and historical province of Finland. It is the smallest province of Finland, with 0.5% of Finland's population and 0.49% of the land area.

Åland Islands Media

The Aland Islands are a group of islands between Sweden and Finland. A province of Finland, they are Swedish speaking.
Swedish Map of Åland from before 1667 with shipping lanes, harbours, churches and various boundaries marked
The Åland Islands during the Crimean War. It was here that the Battle of Bomarsund was fought.
Swedish artillerymen in Haraldsby during the Invasion of Åland in 1918.
Åland (blue) with historical and modern (yellow lines) provinces of the rest of Finland (gray) juxtaposed.
Åland Islands status shown in public signage, Mariehamn
The Parliament of Åland with the flags of the European Union, Åland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Germany, Estonia, Russia, Lithuania, and Latvia.
Alands Islands License Plate
Coat of arms of Mariehamn
Coat of arms of Jomala

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Åland Islands Landskapet Åland (Swedish) Ahvenanmaan maakunta (Finnish)

Motto:
Anthem:

Capital and largest city	Mariehamn Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 614: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
Official languages	Swedish
Demonym(s)	Ålandic - Ålandish Ålänning - Åländare Ahvenanmaalainen
Government	Autonomous region of Finland

• Governor^a	Peter Lindbäck
• Premier	Katrin Sjögren

Autonomy

• Declared	1920
• Recognized	1921^b

Area
• Total	Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). (unranked)
Population
• 2011 estimate	28,355
• Density	Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value).
GDP (PPP)	2007 estimate
• Total	$1.563 billion^[3]
• Per capita	$55,829
HDI (2007)	0.967^[4] very high
Currency	Euro (€)^c (EUR)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Calling code	+358^d
ISO 3166 code	AX
Internet TLD	.ax^e
The governorship is an administrative post appointed by the Government of Finland and does not have any authority over the autonomous Government of Åland. Settled by the League of Nations following the Åland crisis. Until 1999, the Finnish markka. The Swedish krona (SEK) is also widely used. Area code 18. Replacing .aland.fi from August 2006. The .eu domain is also used, as it is shared with Finland and the rest of European Union member states.