Föglö

Municipality in Åland, Finland

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Location of Föglö in Finland

60°01′50″N 020°23′15″E / 60.03056°N 20.38750°E / 60.03056; 20.38750Country

FinlandRegionÅlandSub-regionArchipelago sub-regionGovernment

• Municipal managerNiklas ErikssonArea

(2018-01-01)^[1]

• Total1,869.07 km² (721.65 sq mi) • Land134.77 km² (52.03 sq mi) • Water1,734.24 km² (669.59 sq mi) • Rank286th largest in FinlandPopulation

(2023-12-31)^[2]

• Total509 • Rank302nd largest in Finland • Density3.78/km² (9.8/sq mi)Population by native language

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• Swedish82.3% (official) • Finnish3.1% • Others14.5%Population by age

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• 0 to 1413.7% • 15 to 6454.8% • 65 or older31.6%Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)Websitewww.foglo.ax

Föglö is a group of islands and municipality in Åland, an autonomous territory of Finland.

The municipality has a population of 509 (31 December 2023)^[2] and covers an area of 1,869.07 square kilometres (721.65 sq mi) of which 1,734.24 km² (669.59 sq mi) is water.^[1] The population density is 3.78 inhabitants per square kilometre (9.8/sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Swedish, yet in the last decade^{[needs update]} there has been some immigration from Estonia and Latvia due to the need of employees at the fish farms, the main industry in Föglö. The municipality is connected only by ferries to Lumparland which has a road connection to Mariehamn, and by ferries to mainland Finland.

Erik Adolf von Willebrand discovered von Willebrand disease of the blood by observing a family in Föglö.

References

^ ^a ^b "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Population growth biggest in nearly 70 years". Population structure. Statistics Finland. 26 April 2024. ISSN 1797-5395. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
^ "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.