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Orrdalsklint, Kastelholm Castle, Märket and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Åland Islands and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
Highest point on the autonomous region of Åland Islands in Finland
The summit of Åland, Finland's autonomous region, 129.1 metres (423.6 ft) up, a hill in Saltvik municipality, roughly 7 kilometers from the town centre, which lies to its southwest.
Photo: bgprof, CC BY-SA 4.0
Medieval castle in Sund, Åland, Finland
A castle the Swedes raised late in the 14th century, near the village of Kastelholm in Sund municipality, Åland, looking over a fjord beside Road 2, roughly 25 kilometres (16 mi) northeast of Mariehamn.
Photo: Mona-Mia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Uninhabited skerry between Sweden and Finland
An uninhabited skerry of 3.3-hectare (8.2-acre) in the Baltic Sea, shared by Finland and Sweden, whose main man-made feature is a lighthouse. It has been split between the two since the Treaty of Fredrikshamn of 1809 ran the border between Sweden and the Grand Duchy of Finland through its middle.
Photo: tt_koski, CC BY 2.0
Bay in Åland, Finland
A large bay without islands in Åland's main island, Finland, with Sund on its north, Lumparland on its east, Lemland on its south and Jomala on its west.
Photo: Håkan Skogsjö, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Maritime museum in Åland Islands, Finland
A museum in Mariehamn, Åland, Finland, in the west of the town by the sea on Hamngatan, about 1 km (0.62 mi) along from the other end of Storagatan.
Photo: Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0
Municipality in Åland, Finland
An island group and municipality in Åland, the autonomous territory of Finland.
Photo: Håkan Skogsjö, CC BY-SA 4.0
Largest and most populous island of Åland in Finland
The biggest island of Åland, the autonomous Finnish province, with more people than any other, and home to Mariehamn, the provincial capital.
Photo: Håkan Skogsjö, CC BY-SA 4.0
Capital and largest city of Åland
Åland's capital city, seat of the government and parliament of this self-governing region of Finland.
Photo: User Västgöten on sv.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Church building in Jomala, Åland, Finland
A stone church in Jomala, Åland, dating from the Middle Ages, now part of Finland's Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Photo: Håkan Skogsjö, CC BY-SA 4.0
Church in Åland, Finland
A medieval Lutheran church of stone in Eckerö, on the Åland Islands, an important example of the Baltic region's medieval church architecture.
Photo: Håkan Skogsjö, CC BY-SA 4.0
A self-governing, demilitarised region of Finland, autonomous since 1920. It is Finland's smallest region by area and by population (30,654), with 0.51% of the country's land and 0.54% of its people. Swedish is its official language, and Mariehamn its capital.
Officially Åland.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Orrdalsklint, Kastelholm Castle, Märket and Lumparn and others.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Åland Islands that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
Swedish. The currency is EUR.
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