Aland Islands Landskapet Aland    ( Swadish ) Ahvenanmaan maakunta    ( Finnish )
Banner Coat o airms
Motto:  "Islands o Peace" [1]
Anthem :  Alanningens sang " Song of the Alander "
Location o Aland within Finland
Caipital and largest city	Mariehamn 60°07′N 019°54′E  /  60.117°N 19.900°E  / 60.117; 19.900
Offeecial leids	Swadish
Demonym(s)	Alandic Alandish Alanning Alandare Ahvenanmaalainen
Sovereign state	Republic o Finland
Govrenment	Autonomous region o Finland
? Govrenor a	Peter Lindback
?  Premier	Katrin Sjogren
Legislatur	Lagting
Autonomy
? Act on the Autonomy o Aland	7 Mey 1920 [2]
? Recognised	1921 b
?  Jynt the EU	1 Januar 1995 c
Aurie
? Total	1,580 [3]  km 2 (610 sq mi) ( unranked )
Population
? 2017 estimate	29,489 [4]
? Density	18.36/km 2 (47.6/sq mi)
GDP   ( PPP )	2007 estimate
? Total	$1.563 billion [5]
? Per capita	$55,829
HDI   (2017)	0.900 [6] verra heich
Currency	Euro (€) d ( EUR )
Time zone	UTC +2 ( EET )
? Summer ( DST )	UTC +3 ( EEST )
Cawin code	+358 e
ISO 3166 code	AX
Internet TLD	.ax f
The govrenorship is an admeenistrative post appyntit bi the Govrenment o Finland an daes nae hae any authority ower the autonomous Govrenment o Aland . Settled bi the League o Naitions follaein the Aland Islands dispute . Aland 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.

Aland ( Swadish pronunciation:  [?oːland] , 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.

Aland comprises Fasta Aland (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 Aland is separatit frae the coast o Swaden bi 38 kilometres (24 mi) o open water tae the wast. In the east, the Aland airchipelago is contiguous wi the Finnish Airchipelago Sea . Aland's anerlie land border is locatit on the uninhabitit skerry o Market , ^[8] which it shares wi Swaden.

Acause o the autonomous status o the Aland 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 Aland in Aland.

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