Åland

Åland Islands
Åland Islands; Landskapet Åland (Swadish); Ahvenanmaan maakunta (Finnish);
	Banner Coat o airms
	Motto: "Islands o Peace"
	Anthem: Ålänningens sång ; "Song of the Ålander";
	Location o Åland within Finland
Caipital; and largest city	Mariehamn; 60°07′N 019°54′E / 60.117°N 19.900°E
Offeecial leids	Swadish
Demonym(s)	Ålandic; Ålandish; ; Ålänning; Åländare; ; Ahvenanmaalainen;
Sovereign state	Republic o Finland
Govrenment	Autonomous region o Finland
• Govrenora	Peter Lindbäck
• Premier	Katrin Sjögren
Legislatur	Lagting
Autonomy
• Act on the Autonomy o Åland	7 Mey 1920
• Recognised	1921b
• Jynt the EU	1 Januar 1995c
Aurie
• Total	1,580 km2 (610 sq mi) (unranked)
Population
• 2017 estimate	29,489
• Density	18.36/km2 (47.6/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	2007 estimate
• Total	$1.563 billion
• Per capita	$55,829
HDI (2017)	0.900; verra heich
Currency	Euro (€)d (EUR)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Cawin code	+358e
ISO 3166 code	AX
Internet TLD	.axf
	The govrenorship is an admeenistrative post appyntit bi the Govrenment o Finland an daes nae hae any authority ower the autonomous Govrenment o Åland.; Settled bi the League o Naitions follaein the Åland Islands dispute.; Åland held a separate referendum an then jynt at the same time as the rest o Finland.; Til 1999, the Finnish markka. The Swadish krona (SEK) is an aw widely uised.; Aurie code 18.; Replacin .aland.fi frae August 2006. The .eu domain is an aw used, as it is shared wi Finland an the rest o European Union member states.;

Åland (Swadish pronunciation: [ˈoːland], Finnish: Ahvenanmaa), is an autonomous region an a airchipelago in the Easter Seas. They are situatit at the entrance tae the Guwf o Bothnie an form an autonomous, demilitarised, monolingually Swadish-speakin region o Finland. The islands collectively constitute the smawest region o Finland, wi anerlie 0.49% o its land aurie, an 0.50% o its population.

Åland comprises Fasta Åland (the "Main Island," wi 90% o the population),^[7] thegither wi an airchipelago tae the east that comprises ower 6,500 skerries an islands. Fasta Åland is separatit frae the coast o Swaden bi 38 kilometres (24 mi) o open water tae the wast. In the east, the Åland airchipelago is contiguous wi the Finnish Airchipelago Sea. Åland's anerlie land border is locatit on the uninhabitit skerry o Märket,^[8] which it shares wi Swaden.

Acause o the autonomous status o the Åland Islands, the pouers exercised at the provincial level bi representatives o the central state admeenistration in the rest o Finland are lairgely exercised bi the Govrenment o Åland in Åland.

Municipalities

References

↑ Tim Vickery, Associated Press (18 July 2004) Deseret News.
↑ Hurst Hannum (1993). "Agreement between Sweden and Finland Relating to Guarantees in the Law of 7 May 1920 on the Autonomy of the Aaland Islands". Basic Documents on Autonomy and Minority Rights. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 141. ISBN 0-7923-1977-X.
↑ "Ennakkoväkiluku sukupuolen mukaan alueittain, helmikuu.2016". Pxnet2.stat.fi. Archived frae the original on 10 Apryle 2016. Retrieved 31 Mairch 2016.
↑ "Ålands officiella statistikmyndighet". asub.ax.
↑ "Välkommen till ÅSUB! - Ålands statistik- och utredningsbyrå". Asub.ax. Archived frae the original on 15 November 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
↑ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org (in Inglis). Retrieved 13 September 2018.
↑ "The Åland Islands". Archived frae the original on 9 Mey 2012. Retrieved 23 Januar 2013.
↑ an account of the border on Märket, and how it was redrawn in 1985, appears in Hidden Europe Magazine, 11 (November 2006) pp. 26-29 ISSN 1860-6318

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[1] Tim Vickery, Associated Press (18 July 2004) Deseret News.

[2] Hurst Hannum (1993). "Agreement between Sweden and Finland Relating to Guarantees in the Law of 7 May 1920 on the Autonomy of the Aaland Islands". Basic Documents on Autonomy and Minority Rights. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 141. ISBN 0-7923-1977-X.

[norden-3] "Ennakkoväkiluku sukupuolen mukaan alueittain, helmikuu.2016". Pxnet2.stat.fi. Archived frae the original on 10 Apryle 2016. Retrieved 31 Mairch 2016.

[4] "Ålands officiella statistikmyndighet". asub.ax.

[5] "Välkommen till ÅSUB! - Ålands statistik- och utredningsbyrå". Asub.ax. Archived frae the original on 15 November 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2017.

[6] "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org (in Inglis). Retrieved 13 September 2018.

[7] "The Åland Islands". Archived frae the original on 9 Mey 2012. Retrieved 23 Januar 2013.

[8] unt of the border on Märket, and how it was redrawn in 1985, appears in Hidden Europe Magazine, 11 (November 2006) pp. 26-29 ISSN 1860-6318

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