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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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Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: Official Site of Aland Islands. Apr 11, 2026
Add new Web site: Official Tourism Site of Åland Islands, Finland. Sep 17, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Imagining the Åland Islands. A sea of peace (PDF). May 27, 2025
Add new Web site: The University of Edinburgh - Forging autonomy in a unitary state: the ?land Islands in Finland (PDF). Jan 11, 2025
Add new Web site: The New York Times - A Guide to the Aland Archipelago, Where You Can Sleep on Your Own Island. Jan 08, 2024
Add new Web site: Aarhus University - nordics.info - The �land Islands. Dec 02, 2023
Map added. Oct 11, 2023
Add new Web site: Swedish Finn Historical Society - The �land Islands. Sep 08, 2023
Map added. Jul 18, 2023
Add new Web site: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland - The special status of the �land Islands, Finland. Feb 16, 2023
Add new Web site: Official Tourism Site of Åland Islands, Finland. Dec 26, 2022
Add new Web site: CRW Flags - Flag of Aaland Islands, Finland. Feb 05, 2018
Media added. Jun 30, 2011
Article revised and updated. Dec 08, 2006
Article revised. Mar 16, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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