Hammarland

Municipality in Åland, Finland

Coat of arms

Location of Hammarland in Finland

60°13′N 019°44′E / 60.217°N 19.733°E / 60.217; 19.733Country

FinlandRegionÅlandSub-regionÅland Countryside sub-regionGovernment

• Municipal managerKurt CarlssonArea

(2018-01-01)^[1]

• Total1,224.17 km² (472.65 sq mi) • Land138.55 km² (53.49 sq mi) • Water1,084.84 km² (418.86 sq mi) • Rank285th largest in FinlandPopulation

(2023-12-31)^[2]

• Total1,645 • Rank276th largest in Finland • Density11.87/km² (30.7/sq mi)Population by native language

^[3]

• Swedish89.1% (official) • Finnish3.6% • Others7.2%Population by age

^[4]

• 0 to 1417.7% • 15 to 6460.2% • 65 or older22.1%Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)Websitewww.hammarland.ax

Hammarland is a municipality of Åland, an autonomous territory of Finland.

The municipality has a population of 1,645 (31 December 2023)^[2] and covers an area of 1,224.17 square kilometres (472.65 sq mi) of which 1,084.84 km² (418.86 sq mi) is water.^[1] The population density is 11.87 inhabitants per square kilometre (30.7/sq mi).

The municipality is unilingually Swedish. 89% of its population has Swedish as their native language,^[3] making Hammarland one of the municipalities with the highest percentage of Swedish-speakers in Finland.

Märket, the westernmost point of Finland, is an exclave of Hammarland.^[6]

The most significant main road of Hammarland is the Highway 1 between Mariehamn and Eckerö.

References

^ ^a ^b "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Immigration record high in Finland in 2023". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Demographic Structure by area as of 31 December 2022". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
^ "Population according to age (1-year) and sex by area and the regional division of each statistical reference year, 2003–2020". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Luettelo kuntien ja seurakuntien tuloveroprosenteista vuonna 2023". Tax Administration of Finland. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
^ Citizen's Map Site – National Land Survey of Finland