Region: Western Europe
Capital: Mariehamn
Population: 28,007
Area: 13,517 km²
Currency: Euro (EUR)
Languages: Swedish
The Åland Islands or Åland is an autonomous, demilitarised, monolingually Swedish-speaking region of Finland that consists of an archipelago lying at the entrance to theGulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea. Collectively, the islands in the archipelago form the smallest region of Finland, constituting 0.49% of its land area and 0.50% of its population. Wikipedia