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Mariehamn Map highlighting the location of the Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland, with surrounding countries including Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, and Germany. The Aland Islands are marked in brown and labeled in large orange text. An inset globe in the upper left shows the wider geographic context of northern Europe. Map highlighting the Nordic countries and their territories in northern Europe and the North Atlantic. Denmark, including Greenland and the Faroe Islands, is marked in green and light blue; Iceland in dark blue; Norway in orange, including Svalbard and Jan Mayen; Sweden in yellow; and Finland in purple, including the Aland Islands. Country and territory names are labeled clearly.
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Mariehamn Harbour at Mariehamn, Åland island, Finland.

Åland Islands

islands, Finland
Also known as: Åland Skärgård, Ahvenanmaa
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Åland Islands, archipelago constituting Åland (Ahvenanmaa) autonomous territory, southwestern Finland. The islands lie at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia, 25 miles (40 km) east of the Swedish coast, at the eastern edge of the Åland Sea. The archipelago has a land area of 599 square miles (1,551 square km) and consists of about 35 inhabited islands, 6,500 uninhabited islands, and many rocky reefs. The bedrock is primarily granite and covered with a soil...

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