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What island is split between Sweden and Finland?
Märket ('The Mark', Swedish pronunciation: [ˈmæ̂rːkɛt]) is a 3.3-hectare (8.2-acre) uninhabited skerry in the Baltic Sea shared by Sweden and Finland (in the area of the autonomous region Åland), with a lighthouse as its salient humanmade feature.
Why does Åland belong to Finland?
Åland was, along with Finland, a part of the Kingdom of Sweden but became part of the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1809 when Sweden was forced to relinquish Finland and Åland to the Russian Empire.
What is the island between Finland and Sweden?
The Åland Islands or Åland is an archipelago in the Baltic Sea consisting of 6,757 islands situated midway between Finland and Sweden. The people of Åland speak Swedish, and the archipelago is an autonomous territory but a part of Finland, with its own parliament and flag.
Is Mariehamn in Sweden or Finland?
Receiving its autonomy by a 1920 decision of the League of Nations, it is the smallest region of Finland by both area (1,580 km2) and population (30,129), constituting 0.51% of Finland's land area and 0.54% of its population. Its only official language is Swedish and the capital city is Mariehamn.
The Church of St. Olaf is a medieval stone church in Jomala, Åland. It belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Dating from about 1260 to 1280 ...
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Jomala is a municipality in Åland, surrounding the capital city of Mariehamn. With 5,000 inhabitants it is the second largest municipality on the islands, ...
Wikipedia. Search. Åland. Article · Talk. Language; Watch · View ... Finland, and also to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. ... Jomala. Population: 5,697. Increase.
Jumala as a god of the sky is associated with the related Estonian Jumal, Mari Jumo and is thought to stem from an ancient tradition of the Finno-Ugric peoples.
municipality of Åland, Finland.
Mariehamn is the seat of the Government and Parliament of Åland, and 40% of the population of Åland live in the city. It is mostly surrounded by Jomala, the ...
A municipality of the Åland Islands, Finland. Declension edit. The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used ...