Åland

Also known as Aland Isles, Ahvenanmaa, ax, Åland region, Aaland, Aaland Islands, Aland, Aland Islands

Åland ( , ; ) is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland. Receiving its autonomy by a 1920 decision of the League of Nations, it is the smallest region of Finland by both area () and population (30,654), constituting 0.51% of Finland's land area and 0.54% of its population. Its official language is Swedish and the capital city is Mariehamn.

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Åland is an autonomous and demilitarized region of Finland with its own government, located between Finland and Sweden, where Swedish is the official language rather than Finnish. It received its special status in 1920 through a League of Nations decision and remains Finland's smallest region by area and population, with about 30,600 residents.

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Political division.name: Åland
Political division.other_name: Region of Åland
Political division.settlement_type: Autonomous region
Political division.image_flag: Flag of Åland.svg
Political division.flag_size: 125
Political division.image_shield: Coat of arms of Åland 3.svg
Political division.shield_size: 75
Political division.anthem: ()File:Song of the Ålanders (local version).ogg
Political division.image_map: Ahvenanmaa in Finland.svg
Political division.mapsize: 190px
Political division.map_caption: Location of Åland within Finland
Political division.subdivision_type: Country
Political division.subdivision_name: Finland
Political division.established_title: Autonomy granted
Political division.established_date: 7 May 1920
Political division.established_title2: First Regional Assembly
Political division.established_date2: 9 June 1922 (Autonomy Day)
Political division.established_title3: EU accession

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Åland
Demonym: prebivalka Alandskih otokov
Population: 30836
Area: 1582.93
Elevation: 129
Official website: www.regeringen.ax
Image: Alands flag.jpg
GDP per capita: 1194000000
Dialing code: +358 (18)
Licence plate code: AX

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P12749: Calascio
P11012: Sikkim
Unicode character: 🇦🇽
Commons category: Åland
Commons gallery: Åland
native label: Åland
NCI Thesaurus ID: C44481

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Åland is situated in an 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, and about 6,500 skerries and islands to its east, of which about 60–80 are inhabited. Fasta Åland is separated from the coast of Roslagen in Sweden by of open water to the west. In the east, the Åland archipelago is contiguous with the Finnish archipelago. Åland's only land border is located on the uninhabited skerry of Märket, which it shares with Sweden. From Mariehamn, there is a ferry distance of about to Turku, a coastal city of mainland Finland, and also to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.