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Åland Islands

• autonomous Finnish province and archipelago
• own names: Åland (Swedish), Avenanmaa (Finnish)

Contents

• Flag

• Meaning/Origin of the Flag

• Map

• Numbers and Facts

• History

• Origin of the Country's Name

Flag

Flag of the Åaland Islands,
ratio = 17:26,
Source, by: Die Welt der Flaggen

Meaning/Origin of the Flag

The flag of the Aaland Islands was adoped on the 7th of April 1954. It shows a yellow bordered red Scandinavian cross (= a cross, displaced to the pole-side – all scandinavian countries have as a sign of relationships and togetherness such a cross in their flags) on blue ground. The flag unites the colours of the flags and coats of arms of Finland and Sweden respectively. This way the Swedish yellow cross is easily indentified with the red Finnish red cross as an overlay (the Finnish coat of arms is red).

Source: Die Welt der Flaggen

Map

Location:

Source: wikimedia.org,
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Pudeo~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).
[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Numbers and Facts

Area: 610 square miles

Inhabitants: 30.074 (2020), thereof 88% Swedes, 5% Finns

Density of Population: 49 inh./sq.mi.

Capital: Mariehamn, 11.743 inh.. (2018)

official Language: Swedish

other Languages: Finnish

Currency: 1 Euro (€) = 100 Cent

Time Zone: GMT + 2 h

Source: Wikipedia (D)

History

1921 · London conference: The Aaland Islands come to Finland, after Sweden had claimed the islands since 1917 due to the high Swedish population contingent. However the islands received an autonomy status.

Source: Wikipedia (D)

Origin of the Country's Name

The Swedish name of the islands "Åland" is of Indo-European origin. "A" or "Aha" was called "water".

Source: Atlas der wahren Namen