Åland Islands
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.
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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 |
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• 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 | +358d |
ISO 3166 code | AX |
Internet TLD | .axe |
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Åland Islands Media
The Aland Islands are a group of islands between Sweden and Finland. A province of Finland, they are Swedish speaking.
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.
The Parliament of Åland with the flags of the European Union, Åland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Germany, Estonia, Russia, Lithuania, and Latvia.
References
- ↑ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20040718/ai_n11466101%7C[dead link] Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 18 Jul 2004, by Tim Vickery, Associated Press
- ↑ "Facts about Åland". Archived from the original on 18 June 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
- ↑ "Välkommen till ÅSUB! - Ålands statistik- och utredningsbyrå". www.asub.ax.
- ↑ "Human Development Report 2007". 2007. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
Other websites
Media related to Åland at Wikimedia Commons