�land Municipalities (original) (raw)
Updates: 
According to ISO 3166-1 Newsletter number V-9, dated 2004-02-13, �land Islands has been assigned a separate country code. Therefore, I will now treat �land as a separate country and not part of Finland. However, it's still administered by Finland, and has a structure of municipalities and sub-regions that is part of Finland's administrative system. The ISO 3166-2 code, FI-AL, and the GEC code FI01, representing �land as a province of Finland, have not been revoked. TheGENC standard treats �land as part of Finland. [1]
Swedish is the only official language of �land. The Finnish name for the territory is Ahvenanmaa, and its capital, Mariehamn, is Maarianhamina in Finnish. The town has been created by the Russian emperor Alexander II in 1861, and named in honor of his consort, the empress Maria Alexandrovna. The rural municipalities, which originate in the old parishes, bear the name of their center.
The population is 30,359 (2022-12-31 estimate), and the land area, 1,554 km� or 600 sq. mi. [2]; [3]
Country overview:
| Short name | �LAND |
|---|---|
| ISO code | AX |
| GEC code | FI01 |
| Language | Swedish (sv) |
| Time zone | +2 ~ |
| Capital | Mariehamn |
�land was a district (kihlakunta/h�rad) of Turku and Pori county (l��ni/l�n) of Finland until 1918, when it was made a special county by the Senate Regulation no. 48 of 1918-06-13. It has remained a county until 2010, when it became a province (maakunta/landskap). Its special autonomous status was acquirred since 1921-10, under the Decision of the Council of the League of Nations of 1921-06-24, and was enlarged by the Act on the Autonomy of Aland of 1991-08-16/1144, as amended in 1993, 1995, 2000, and 2004.
Other names of country:
- Danish: �lands�erne
- Dutch: �land
- English: �land Islands (variant)
- Finnish: Ahvenanmaa, Ahvenanmaan maakunta
- French: �les fp �land
- German: �land-Inseln fp
- Icelandic: �landseyjar
- Italian: Isole �land
- Norwegian: �land
- Portuguese: �land
- Russian: Аландские острова
- Spanish: Islas de �land
- Swedish: �lands l�n
- Turkish: �land Adaları
Origin of name:
Ahvenanmaa: Finnish ahven: perch (the fish) + maa: land. �land comes from Swedish �: river,land: land.
Primary subdivisions:
�land is divided into sixteen municipalities (kommuner; sing.: kommuna).
| Swedish name | HASC | mun | src | Population | Area(km.�) | Area(mi.�) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Br�nd� | AX.BR | 035 | 213 | 450 | 108.4 | 40.5 |
| Ecker� | AX.EC | 043 | 212 | 939 | 109.2 | 42.2 |
| Finstr�m | AX.FN | 060 | 212 | 2,588 | 130.2 | 50.3 |
| F�gl� | AX.FG | 062 | 213 | 504 | 135.0 | 52.1 |
| Geta | AX.GT | 065 | 212 | 507 | 87.5 | 33.8 |
| Hammarland | AX.HM | 076 | 212 | 1,628 | 140.3 | 54.2 |
| Jomala | AX.JM | 170 | 212 | 5,610 | 144.4 | 55.8 |
| K�kar | AX.KK | 318 | 213 | 223 | 64.0 | 24.7 |
| Kumlinge | AX.KM | 295 | 213 | 306 | 99.4 | 38.4 |
| Lemland | AX.LE | 417 | 212 | 2,131 | 114.1 | 44.0 |
| Lumparland | AX.LU | 438 | 212 | 360 | 36.4 | 14.0 |
| Mariehamn | AX.MH | 478 | 211 | 11,757 | 11.8 | 4.6 |
| Saltvik | AX.SV | 736 | 212 | 1,793 | 159.6 | 61.6 |
| Sottunga | AX.ST | 766 | 213 | 111 | 28.1 | 10.8 |
| Sund | AX.SD | 771 | 212 | 1,001 | 112.5 | 43.4 |
| V�rd� | AX.VR | 941 | 213 | 451 | 102.1 | 39.4 |
| Total | 30,359 | 1,583 | 611 | |||
| Swedish name: Name of municipality in Swedish. As of 2023, thesewere all rural municipalities except Mariehamn, which is a town. HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. mun: Municipality code (administrative and statistical code). src: Code for the sub-region containing the municipality(see below). Population: 2022-12-31 census and estimates from Statistics �land. Areas: for municipalities: land + freshwater; total area, withthe territorial waters: 13,324.5 km� or 5,144.793 mi� (source: [2]; [3]) |
Postal codes:
�land uses five-digit postal codes from the Finnish system, always beginning with '22'. Postal codes for addresses in �land can be identified by prefixing them with "AX-".
Further subdivisions:
The Finland Interior Ministry assigns �land a region code of 20. It is divided into three sub-regions. Their Swedish names, with English glosses and sub-region codes, are �lands landsbygd (countryside, 212), �lands sk�rg�rd (archipelago, 213), and Mariehamns stads (Mariehamn city, 211). Before 2001-01-01 there were only two sub-regions: F�gl� (containing the same municipalities as �lands sk�rg�rd) and Mariehamn (the rest of �land).
Territorial extent:
�land includes islands west of the Skiftet, or Kihti (channel), and east of �lands Hav. The largest is �land island. Among the easternmost are K�kar and Br�nd�.
The UN LOCODE page 
for �land lists locations in the country, some of them with their latitudes and longitudes, some with their ISO 3166-2 codes for their subdivisions. This information can be put together to approximate the territorial extent of subdivisions.
Population history:
| Municipality | Pop. 1910 | Pop. 1930 | Pop. 1950 | Pop. 1970 | Pop. 1990 | Pop. 2010 | Pop. 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Br�nd� | 1,147 | 1,021 | 927 | 612 | 529 | 488 | 450 |
| Ecker� | 1,082 | 1,050 | 942 | 690 | 811 | 943 | 939 |
| Finstr�m | 2,105 | 2,014 | 2,089 | 1,678 | 2,206 | 2,502 | 2,588 |
| F�gl� | 1,457 | 1,418 | 1,188 | 684 | 606 | 580 | 504 |
| Geta | 969 | 783 | 775 | 471 | 478 | 475 | 507 |
| Hammarland | 1,669 | 1,338 | 1,454 | 1,024 | 1,233 | 1,508 | 1,628 |
| Jomala | 2,418 | 2,176 | 3,413 | 2,051 | 3,025 | 4,098 | 5,610 |
| K�kar | 879 | 785 | 683 | 369 | 296 | 259 | 223 |
| Kumlinge | 917 | 860 | 788 | 523 | 465 | 364 | 306 |
| Lemland | 1,615 | 1,342 | 1,342 | 691 | 1,269 | 1,814 | 2,131 |
| Lumparland | 564 | 419 | 448 | 312 | 322 | 394 | 360 |
| Mariehamn | 1,015 | 1,469 | 3,273 | 8,546 | 10,263 | 11,190 | 11,757 |
| Saltvik | 2,595 | 2,529 | 2,041 | 1,469 | 1,634 | 1,802 | 1,793 |
| Sottunga | 366 | 348 | 299 | 175 | 133 | 119 | 111 |
| Sund | 1,521 | 1,376 | 1,382 | 949 | 948 | 1,019 | 1,001 |
| V�rd� | 1,037 | 777 | 646 | 422 | 386 | 452 | 451 |
| Totals | 21,356 | 19,705 | 21,690 | 20,666 | 24,604 | 28,007 | 30,359 |