WHAT IS THIS PLACE?? - Åland Islands, Explained

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  • The Åland Islands are extremely interesting when it comes to their geography, international status, history and culture.
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  • @ChevronTango
    @ChevronTango 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    When they were designing their flag, in an act of unrivalled petulance, they made it as close to the Swedish flag as they possibly could! Love it!

    • @bobbenbobbau7672
      @bobbenbobbau7672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      my mothers teacher told her that when they made the flag they stuck a knife through the Swedish flag

    • @annabackman3028
      @annabackman3028 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bobbenbobbau7672 That's one side of the story. A very large part of the population wanted Åland to become Swedish. Back then. Few do nowadays.

    • @Scbalq
      @Scbalq ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Communist Sweden 🥵

    • @irenemcwatt2088
      @irenemcwatt2088 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh, come on! No such thing! Get your facts right, learn something about humanity.

  • @stalllyckan691
    @stalllyckan691 6 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    I live in Åland🇦🇽

  • @dergerullanderproductions4870
    @dergerullanderproductions4870 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Åland wasnt " occupied " by Sweden, for several hundred years Åland had already been inhabited by norse (swedish) peoples. There is even evidence they took place in viking raids on eastern countries.

    • @sandrad81
      @sandrad81 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well it was owned by Sweden

    • @loki76
      @loki76 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@sandrad81 It was Swedish land and territory for nearly 700 years give or take. Longer than Europeans been in North America.
      Finland would have today simply been a part of Sweden, if it weren't for the loss to Russia in that war in early 1800's.

    • @northbreeze0111
      @northbreeze0111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Lol, it was never ever occupied. No-one basically lived there before the Swedes came. Åland is as much Swedish as Stockholm is. Gotland, Skåne, Bohuslän and Jämtland is way less Swedish than Åland.

    • @smithfinland214
      @smithfinland214 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@northbreeze0111 nope...first people were there 4200 B.C seasonal inhabitants and first permanent inhabitants were there 2500 B.C. who were part of Comb Ceramic culture hunter gatherers.

    • @potatofuryy
      @potatofuryy ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah its a bit like saying that Stockholm is occupied by Sweden lol

  • @tepetti
    @tepetti 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    You got the location of Turku a bit wrong. You had it where Helsinki is when it actually is more to the west much closer to Åland.

  • @YourRoyalMajesty.
    @YourRoyalMajesty. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Thank you for this. My ancestors come from Åland. They (my great great grandparents) moved to America under the name Alander, obviously not their true last name, but were so incredibly proud of where they came from they assumed the name. I can’t wait to learn more.

    • @eijeurwass2076
      @eijeurwass2076 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      How interesting! I am born and raised in Åland, happy to answear any questions If you have any :)

    • @nathanalander7628
      @nathanalander7628 ปีที่แล้ว

      My paternal great grandfather moved to the US at the turn of the century with the surname Alander. The research I've done tells me he was born in Loppi, Finland but I assume the family was originally from Aland. I'd love to learn more

    • @peteseaton1547
      @peteseaton1547 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nathanalander7628 My Gt 3x Grandparents are from there too, i'm in Northern ireland.

  • @Z.DeAllen
    @Z.DeAllen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    2:44 I died laughing 😂😂😂 Keep making these little known countries videos. I love the concise history and comic style you use.

  • @rickberglund2134
    @rickberglund2134 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My great grandfather immigrated from Mariehamn, Aland to the United States in 1911. Like many Americans, I recently had my ancestry done, and to my surprise the person who did the research, told me that I was Finnish, not Swedish. Imagine my surprise, when I had to tell family members, those that are still living, that after all these years, we are not Swedish? I was disappointed, I thought Sweden had a richer past. I still consider myself Swedish, because he spoke Swedish. Imagine, this information was not passed down? My father and one of his brothers is gone, so I couldn’t ask them. My great grandfathers wife, my great grandmother was from the mainland of Finland, so I consider myself both Swedish and Finnish.

    • @smeczable
      @smeczable 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well, it's a bit complicated. Åland was associated with Sweden and Swedes since the middle ages, so was the entity of "Finland" which was not a colony of some sort, but just the eastern half of Sweden Proper. So Finland and Sweden was one country for many hundred of years with both Finns and Swedes going both ways over the sea and settling.
      So the modern political definitions/border/Nationalities for Ålanders and Finns is a fairly new phenomenon if you look at the whole history of Sweden-Finland.
      So do with that what you will ;d

  • @barrysteven5964
    @barrysteven5964 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    There are a lot of comments about Åland 'rejoining' Sweden and most people from Åland are commenting that the people there show no wish to be part of Sweden. I have some friends there so I already knew that was the case. I will just add something which is not mentioned in the video. Finland is officially a bilingual country with both Finnish and Swedish as official languages. Although over 90% of the population has Finnish as the first language there are Swedish speaking communities all along the west coast and around Helsinki. All kids study Swedish in school. So being Swedish speaking does not make the Åland islands a unique part of Finland and is not something that would stop someone feeling Finnish. The Swedish spoken there is a lot closer in pronunciation to 'mainland' Swedish than the very distinctive accent of Finland-Swedes though. It IS unique in that it is totally Swedish speaking rather than majority Swedish speaking. Secondly, Finland is a country anyone could be proud to be citizen of. Thirdly, I can't help feeling that by joining Sweden, Åland would just be swallowed up and become an ordinary part of Sweden without any special autonomy, which it has as part of Finland.

    • @askman1116
      @askman1116 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      In my opinion åland doesnt deserve to be part of finland because its a sh*t island

    • @samis6553
      @samis6553 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Totally agree! I would also add that Sweden really doesnt want Åland to be part of Sweden anymore. They would not be able to give the same kind of autonomy to Åland as it has now under Finnish goverment simply because there are other areas in Sweden that would immediately start to demand autonomy status too (Skåne and jämtland mainly.) Things change over time!

    • @hampusjohansson8987
      @hampusjohansson8987 ปีที่แล้ว

      @samis6553 Jämtland ? The places the republic created as a humorous and cultural marketing prodject in the 1960 by an artist and an actor. Don’t think they wouldn’t really apply for any autonomy actually

  • @jamesterwilliger3176
    @jamesterwilliger3176 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I had the privilege of visiting Mariehamn last summer, and consider it one of my most cherished memories. What a truly amazing, unique place.

    • @dietzraimonds69
      @dietzraimonds69 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mariehamn suck. Visit real Åland instead

  • @AHVENAN
    @AHVENAN 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    5 seconds in and Im already disagreeing with you! Yes historically we have tried to leave Finland and instead become a paret of Sweden, but nowadays Im pretty sure most Ålanders are glad we are not a part of Sweden, sure we have our troubles with the Finnish governement and so on, mostly over the language thing, but overall I think most of us are pretty proud to be a part of what I personally think is the greatest country on earth!
    And I am born and raised In the Åland Islands so I know what Im talking about!

    • @lxi9648
      @lxi9648 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      sounds traitorous

    • @AHVENAN
      @AHVENAN 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@lxi9648 Why? How is it traitorous to want to remain a part of the country we are part of? Isn't that the exact opposite of traitorous? xD

    • @lxi9648
      @lxi9648 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AHVENAN cuz it's a foreign country

    • @askman1116
      @askman1116 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Umm there are a lot of horror stories Finnish people have told about discrimination in åland because they are finnish. Finland should give you to Sweden you don't deserve to be part of finland

    • @ymirruneberg7461
      @ymirruneberg7461 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@askman1116 they just want to be left alone and being a Finn i can respect that..

  • @Maarten028
    @Maarten028 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    With the Faroe Islands video, one off the best educative and informstive video's ive seen in a while. Please make some more! Maybe about Longyearbyen (Norway), Bornholm (Denmark), Isle of Man (UK) for example!

    • @CreativelyeXplained
      @CreativelyeXplained  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks! Nice suggestions :)

    • @xarakhan8266
      @xarakhan8266 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Top 10 countries that love aland islands 1iceland 2Sweden 3faero islands 4Denmark 5norway 6Finland 7taiwan 8china 9russia 10south korea

  • @AHVENAN
    @AHVENAN 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Also about the hembyggdsrätt, you do not have to have that to LIVE here, you just can not own your own land/house unless you have it

    • @BradyPostma
      @BradyPostma 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So they have to rent housing?

    • @KittenCritters
      @KittenCritters 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BradyPostma Either rent or get housing through work

    • @AlfaGiuliaQV
      @AlfaGiuliaQV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@BradyPostma You can buy property as long as it is within a council planned area, and does not have a shoreline at the sea.

  • @CorbyWaste
    @CorbyWaste ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Excellent
    I shared it on Twitter
    Few people in the USA know anything about this

  • @VerbaleMondo
    @VerbaleMondo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Åland looks amazing, would like to go there. It seems so bleeding interesting. Cheers and love!

    • @xxdemon_gamerxx2910
      @xxdemon_gamerxx2910 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well not much to do if you live there...

    • @thegameclub6509
      @thegameclub6509 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@xxdemon_gamerxx2910 beror på hur man ser på saken!!! Det finns alltid nåt att göra! Ibland saknas bara orken och kreativiteten!

    • @thegameclub6509
      @thegameclub6509 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Viktor Jansson kom till Föglö här har vi en hel del 😉

    • @DudeWithAGoatee
      @DudeWithAGoatee 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      You really should! Åland has a lot of history behind it, as well as old structures that can tell us stories from hundreds of years ago when war took place here. (Yes I live on Åland) :)

    • @dietzraimonds69
      @dietzraimonds69 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I live on Åland. You can do a lot here like drink alcohol and smoke cigg

  • @xarakhan8266
    @xarakhan8266 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love aland islands from Sweden and Iceland🇸🇪🇮🇸❤🇦🇽

  • @drjvoices
    @drjvoices 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Aland islands.... GREAT PLACE😀

    • @dietzraimonds69
      @dietzraimonds69 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      NAO YT thats why I live here

    • @TommiJKeranen
      @TommiJKeranen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s not Aland... It’s Åland.

    • @kattymeow2825
      @kattymeow2825 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ÅLAND

    • @qwertyqwerty-ek7dy
      @qwertyqwerty-ek7dy 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dietzraimonds69 Hey! I've never met an ålander before. Im a finn myself. :)
      I Gotta ask how do ålanders view the finns, Finland, Sweden and their own autonomy?
      Also Finland has tried to convince Sweden togother with Finland to ingrease military protection there togother. Sweden hasnt really been interested, them being neutral and all that.
      Is this viewed positively or negatively in åland it self?

    • @dietzraimonds69
      @dietzraimonds69 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@qwertyqwerty-ek7dy I am also Finn, Ålandians is Finns. We hate Sweden. We are Finns and we live in Finland

  • @krisx74
    @krisx74 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Brilliant video.....bravo! 🇸🇪🤜🏼❤️🤛🏻🇫🇮

    • @chrislfc2317
      @chrislfc2317 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      🇦🇽🇫🇮✅
      🇸🇪🇫🇮❌

  • @viktorpungfoster6916
    @viktorpungfoster6916 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Swedish occupation? Finland used to be an integral part of Sweden until it was annexed by Russia

    • @mikrokupu
      @mikrokupu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True, not any "occupation" really

    • @qwertyqwerty-ek7dy
      @qwertyqwerty-ek7dy ปีที่แล้ว

      Annexation is more accurate.

  • @thanosboi506
    @thanosboi506 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I live in åland islands its very beautiful here we are considered as we are 50 years back in time big red houses near the waters you should visit Åland island

  • @madsbuhris
    @madsbuhris 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Small correction here and there, the inhabitants on the whole archipelago sea speaks Swedish, not only ålandets but finns also. Your map had places Turku/Åbo in wrong place. And finally, Ålands only city Mariehamn was founded 1861 by the the Russian Tzar Alexander 2 after his wife Maria. 85% of the people in Mariehamn speaks Swedish but there are counties in Finland where 93% of population Swedish.

    • @awoboakyeyiadom8419
      @awoboakyeyiadom8419 ปีที่แล้ว

      So who occupied the Aaland Island. Finland or Sweden ?

    • @madsbuhris
      @madsbuhris ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@awoboakyeyiadom8419 Nobody. Åland has alvays been Åland. Finland will protect her from all evil.

    • @potatofuryy
      @potatofuryy ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@awoboakyeyiadom8419 Up to the 1940s you could say Russia and Finland but nowadays the answer is definitely no-one lol.

  • @newgabe09
    @newgabe09 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Going there in a few days. That was great!! I laughed and learned a lot

  • @ExecutiveSonda
    @ExecutiveSonda 6 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    I think you highly overestimate today's Ålanders desires to rejoin with Sweden. =.=

    • @masalli
      @masalli 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Yes. You are right. If Åland joins to Sweden it would lose most of its special privileges. If Finland state sells its property (state company or stocks for example) Åland will have part of the money. When Åland sells its property or collects taxes, Åland can keep all of the money itself because of autonomy. Åland have 16 counties. In continental Finland there is no as small counties as Åland have and Swedish counties are even bigger as Finnish ones. If Åland joins to Sweden it might lose its right of domicile, it might lose special language rights (Sweden is multicultural nation nowadays), and it will definitely lose money from Finland state sales and it should combine its counties and pay taxes to Sweden. And how about demilitarisation? Åland have special fishing and hunting privileges too.
      If current autonomy privileges prevail, Åland will be part of Finland now and in future.

    • @AHVENAN
      @AHVENAN 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      He definately did, way back when FInland became independant from Russia, most Ålanders DID want to become a part of Sweden, but today I think the majority would rule against it, despite the fact that we do have our issues with FInland, maiy over language, I know that atleast I personally am proud to a finnish citizen

    • @Tubebrerry
      @Tubebrerry 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol

    • @kittealand
      @kittealand 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @your alien overlord stop reading ilta sanomat and come here and check how it really is instead. So many lies are spread by some some Finnish magazines that it' is sickening.

    • @Jizmillah
      @Jizmillah 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kittealand Precis!

  • @Strand1537
    @Strand1537 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Im from Åland and I love Finland! Suomi on paras maa!

  • @DerpyNub
    @DerpyNub 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Åland looks like a pretty neat place to live

  • @loretoparas566
    @loretoparas566 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice video.. God bless always. From the 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

  • @Taruchia
    @Taruchia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This was really entertaining. Well explained. ^^ I wanted to learn via TH-cam what Åland is, and thanks to you I feel a little smarter now!

    • @dietzraimonds69
      @dietzraimonds69 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Island of depression, alcoholism and drugs

    • @thegameclub6509
      @thegameclub6509 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dietzraimonds69 well that's Mariehamn! The rest is pure bliss! Especiallt in the archipelago

    • @dietzraimonds69
      @dietzraimonds69 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thegameclub6509 i dont talk about Mariehamn. I live on Ålandian Countryside
      We have alcohol, cast cars and raggers. Nice stuff

    • @thegameclub6509
      @thegameclub6509 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dietzraimonds69 well i'm from Åland aswell and i can agree! But depression, alcoholism and drugs....that basically Mariehamn!! The rest as i said is pure bliss! The nature, old cars, parties etc. Mariehamn is only good in the summer basically hahaha

    • @dietzraimonds69
      @dietzraimonds69 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thegameclub6509 yeah Mariehamn sucks. Fuck Mariehamn

  • @eyedbolty4687
    @eyedbolty4687 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    If my great great grandma was from the Åland Islands am I Finnish or Åland

    • @nasunaskali8634
      @nasunaskali8634 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Technically Finnish (because Åland is still region of Finland), but kind of Finland-Swede, because true Ålanders don't speak Finnish, only Swedish.

    • @eyedbolty4687
      @eyedbolty4687 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks

    • @lxi9648
      @lxi9648 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ur probably Swedish

    • @eyedbolty4687
      @eyedbolty4687 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I knew I was Swedish but dose this mean I am just Swedish plus some other countries

    • @lxi9648
      @lxi9648 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eyedbolty4687 silence traitor

  • @rasmusborgenstrand6319
    @rasmusborgenstrand6319 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I live in Åland

  • @veli-mattirantanen255
    @veli-mattirantanen255 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Instead of the 12th century, looks like you typo'd 22nd (XXII) century at 4:00.

  • @comet1072
    @comet1072 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    awesome video again, super nice and informative! keep up the good work!

  • @Strand1537
    @Strand1537 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I wouldn’t say Åland nor Finland was occupied by Sweden since Finland as a country didnt exist. The land area was just made a part of Sweden and was like any other part of Sweden. It made more sense for us living on Åland to belong to Sweden

    • @qwertyqwerty-ek7dy
      @qwertyqwerty-ek7dy ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Occupation is wrong but annexation is correct.
      Even if there wasnt a Finnish nation state the lands were owned by Finnish tribes.
      Swedes took them over during the northern crusades.

  • @majaaurora6145
    @majaaurora6145 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "the average is 16°C in july"... as a person who has been living in åland for soon 4 years i can tell you that in january we get about an average of 10-°C getting about a degree warmer in april (it snows sometimes in may) and then in july, we get about 30°C. as of writing this comment im melting inside from the heat of the summer here (.づ◡﹏◡)づ.but in the winter im freezing. the only inbetween and "super nice" weather in my opinion here is when its autumn. then its around 16°C from the end of august until the middle of november :) (not hating! just giving some information from a person who lives here :D ) anyways, i found this video really educational! thank you (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤

    • @AlfaGiuliaQV
      @AlfaGiuliaQV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It´s calculated mean temps over a duration of 30 years, for god´s sake.. It doesen´t matter if it was 30 degrees yesterday.

  • @AxelGunnars
    @AxelGunnars 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Regards from Iceland I´m comming your way.

  • @akenoor
    @akenoor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When I was in Åland it was over 32 degrees hot.

    • @BradyPostma
      @BradyPostma 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      For Americans, that's 89.4°F

  • @damian5310
    @damian5310 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰

  • @Vixctor13
    @Vixctor13 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    6:15 I can give one example of how this works. If I buy something online from Sweden, the seller has to deduct the VAT (25%) from the price. When the package gets here I have to declare it through customs and pay the VAT to the government.
    However, some sellers don't care about that so sometimes you end paying the VAT twice.

    • @carl8345
      @carl8345 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      seems very unpractical

    • @AlfaGiuliaQV
      @AlfaGiuliaQV 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@carl8345 It is, but this exemption from VAT legislation is basically a guarantee for the large passenger/car ferries to stop by on Åland en route between SE and FIN. They sell tax free goods on board and we get good ferry connections either direction round the clock. That´s the deal.

  • @mrmatt1165
    @mrmatt1165 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hej. Jag kommer från USA och kan tala svenska, jag tyckte den här videon var intressant. Bra jobbat. :)

  • @janemagallon5655
    @janemagallon5655 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    informative vid....easy to understand as a foreigner and entertaining voice over :)

  • @pumpkin91ful
    @pumpkin91ful 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The first time i eard about Aland , was during sunday's flea market in Rome, when i was near a stand that used to sold stamps one of the customers asked to the owner if he had other stamps from Aland......

  • @charlespointlee
    @charlespointlee 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I subscribed 60% for content, and 40% for soothing voice

  • @LeighDWYC
    @LeighDWYC 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wooh! Leeds crew in the house!

  • @Nooticus
    @Nooticus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This video was really great and interesting! I love the style whoch is similar to wendover prodictions/HAI. I’ll make sure to share this video!

    • @comet1072
      @comet1072 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hmm what are the chances to meet a prototech member on a video with 600 views on something that isn't even closely related to minecraft ;)

    • @Nooticus
      @Nooticus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Haha! It’s a small (internet) world I guess!

  • @georgemacpherson1992
    @georgemacpherson1992 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for using Leeds as an example in your video. Though the capacity of Elland Road is actually 37,890 so say 38,000 as a round number. All Leeds are we.

  • @deutsches_mapping_karten
    @deutsches_mapping_karten 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for explaining me ❤️!

  • @YashMezzala
    @YashMezzala 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Saw it's flag on a quiz and got curious. So here i am

  • @cortwill4085
    @cortwill4085 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE, YOUR VIDEOS SOOOOO MUCH

  • @Joni_Tarvainen
    @Joni_Tarvainen ปีที่แล้ว

    I've always been for Åland to be ruled under Swedes, I mean as a Finn Åland feel as a part of Sweden. If I went further than the port, I would be regarded as a foreign man 'cause I don't speak Swedish even though in paper I'm still "in Finland" so to speak.
    There's just so damn much geopolitical stuff that it would require that it's just practically impossibility. Even when Norway wanted to give us Finns a 100th year anniversary gift on our independence by giving us a few square meters of land at the mountain of Salla, just so we'd have the highest peak of the mountain it simply couldn't be done for those same geopolitical reasons.

  • @simondeschamps4969
    @simondeschamps4969 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Images are wonderful!

  • @itwaskim
    @itwaskim 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just to be clear, most of us do not want to be a part of Sweden nowadays! Otherwise great vid!

  • @ZhangtheGreat
    @ZhangtheGreat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Even in Duolingo, there is a sentence that makes sure we understand this:
    "På Åland talar man svenska."
    The sentence shows up constantly under the "Geography" category for Swedish.

  • @hni7458
    @hni7458 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well well, difficult with Åland innit... Corrections: Åland and Finland were never annected or similar by SWE; we were THE SAME country.
    Then about domicility: It's perfectly OK for a Swede or indeed a Finn to purchase property in Åland as long as the property:
    - is situated on, by town or other municipality, "planned area"
    - isn't larger than about one acre (4,000 m2 I take it)
    - isn't situated by the sea
    The EU saw to that.
    In addition, exemption from bullits above are more or less rule today for houses owned through stocks - which covers the majority of all property today on the island.
    But if 'NoGo' above you need the sv. 'hembyggdsrätt', which indeed is a story by its own.

  • @2PIXELS24
    @2PIXELS24 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Never heard of this!

  • @fclp67
    @fclp67 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    If this channel didn't exist I'd be like: XC but since it does I'm like: CX

  • @TuhannenTomppeli
    @TuhannenTomppeli 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I livi in Finland and i have been in Åland. You forget to say about the krim war when russia had army base in Åland named Bomarsund.

  • @Esthersallie
    @Esthersallie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In july its sometimes it can be up to 30°C...

  • @Sqrutt123
    @Sqrutt123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh! I live on Åland. It’s kinda fun there.

    • @namelessghoul615
      @namelessghoul615 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      im not an Ålander so i wanna know, would u like Åland to be a part of Sweden or Finland :/ (dunno why asking i just wanna know xd)

    • @Sqrutt123
      @Sqrutt123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Probably Finland because I just like Åland being a part of Finland.

    • @namelessghoul615
      @namelessghoul615 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Sqrutt123 Ay helo im Finnish :D

    • @Sqrutt123
      @Sqrutt123 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gacha Potato :>

    • @namelessghoul615
      @namelessghoul615 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Sqrutt123 whats it like in there? Ive never been there

  • @charlinejoseph997
    @charlinejoseph997 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:32 damn that must have been painful to outline and trace

  • @barrydelisle4453
    @barrydelisle4453 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hullo to the people of Aland from New Zealand 😅

  • @vaultkeeper2
    @vaultkeeper2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Occupied by Sweden? The Åland Islands (but not mainland Finland) was part of Sweden since the very foundation, the people who live there still speaks Swedish, specifically a variety very similar to the Swedish they speak in the Roslagen area of Sweden. They were part of Sweden from the founding of Sweden until the 19th century when the Russians came

    • @AHVENAN
      @AHVENAN 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Not true, ALL of Finland was a part of Sweden until the Russians took it from them

    • @sebastiantiainen2749
      @sebastiantiainen2749 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Sweden has occupied neither Finland nor Åland in the sense of occupying a sovereign nation. Many Finns and foreigners get this wrong. Swedes just started to move over seas to Finland where there were more room to settle. There were some Finnish tribes but they were not United and fought between each other and mostly just integrated with the Swedes who came over. Finland became a part of Sweden through a quite peaceful process of integrating with the settlers, not by the sword.

    • @dietzraimonds69
      @dietzraimonds69 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      No kiddo

    • @thepumpkinpatch14
      @thepumpkinpatch14 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes Kiddo, Åland was a part of Sweden already in 1000 A.D. (i.e. before Sweden even was founded according to some), which was before many northern and southern parts of present day Sweden was a part of the country.

    • @dietzraimonds69
      @dietzraimonds69 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The pumpkin patch No kiddo we had Always be Finland we was Coastsapmis

  • @danielanderberg2102
    @danielanderberg2102 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Im watching this from Åland

  • @bobbenbobbau7672
    @bobbenbobbau7672 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Im from Åland 🇦🇽but I don’t want to be reunified with Sweden

    • @Diehjjdjdniqudiwka
      @Diehjjdjdniqudiwka 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why?🤔

    • @bobbenbobbau7672
      @bobbenbobbau7672 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      aesthetic girl I don’t think it would mix well with the conditions we have in the world right now, because Finland and Sweden is treating the corona pandemic differently

    • @staropramen478
      @staropramen478 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Diehjjdjdniqudiwka I think the biggest thing is that Åland would most likely lose a lot of the benefits they have as an autonomous state in Finland.
      Also you gotta admit, that Finland kinda deserves to have Åland considering that they were the ones to defend it against the Russians.

    • @svantecarlson6191
      @svantecarlson6191 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@staropramen478 That’s very flawed logic

    • @askman1116
      @askman1116 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@svantecarlson6191 Åland is swedish im a Finn saying this

  • @TommyTheWalker
    @TommyTheWalker 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The population in my neighborhood in Brooklyn is about 45,000

  • @johannaeriksson470
    @johannaeriksson470 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I live in Åland🇦🇽 in Lemland

  • @azadhassan5003
    @azadhassan5003 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It’s funny how this is my name 😂😂

  • @AHVENAN
    @AHVENAN 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    You're wrong about the police, we do not have our own police here, the police force is governed by the FInnish governement, so are the taxes (apart from local taxes ofcourse), justice system and a few other things.

    • @thegameclub6509
      @thegameclub6509 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@itsfunny1341 oj vad arg du blev 😂, Wikström har rätt

    • @kittealand
      @kittealand 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Fredrik, it's a local police force under the government of Åland, the Landskapsregering. www.polisen.ax/om_polisen/styrning_och_uppfoljning_av_polisverksamheten

    • @sebastiantiainen2749
      @sebastiantiainen2749 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kittealand yeah but it's built as the Finnish police and the officers go to the school in Tampere like every other police officer in Finland. They do have a cool ass insignia

    • @kittealand
      @kittealand 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sebastiantiainen2749 Absolutely, AS the Finnish Police and educated on the mainland of Finland. But it still is a local police force under the Åland Landskapsregering, not governed by the Finnish Government through the Ministry of interior as Fredrik Wikström wrote. That was my point! :D

  • @Jasga
    @Jasga 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    ? But the Gulf of Bothnia, Archipelago Sea and Åland Sea are all just parts of the Baltic Sea...

    • @AlfaGiuliaQV
      @AlfaGiuliaQV 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      technically, the baltic sea stops at the southern shores of Åland.

  • @Wolfgonbuaf
    @Wolfgonbuaf 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Best flag in Nordic world ❤

  • @annasahlberg6124
    @annasahlberg6124 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:12 Åland marked wrong. This tiny piece of land which is laying between Sweden and main land of Finland is Ålands archipelago. In your map is Turku with suburbs.

    • @sujaytv
      @sujaytv 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think you're mistaken. In satellite view the archipelago looks larger, and is correctly circled in this video at 0:12. Go to google maps and see for yourself.

    • @annasahlberg6124
      @annasahlberg6124 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sujaytv do you think I can be mistaken with the place where I live?

  • @filippo_random_phil
    @filippo_random_phil 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    nice , interesting

  • @dmrgen
    @dmrgen 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It sucks captions aren’t available on this video…

  • @wildwindownorway
    @wildwindownorway 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    a country that carries finish passport and speaks swedish, but has its own flag which looks like a replica of both other states. cool

  • @metylmetacrylate
    @metylmetacrylate 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can a Swede move to Åland? My wifes mother came from Åland but moved to Sweden.

    • @Tingletonttu
      @Tingletonttu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think you can but you need Finnish citizenship when you apply for hembygdsrätt.

  • @kaki-sp5od
    @kaki-sp5od 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Im from Åland

    • @readisgooddewaterkant7890
      @readisgooddewaterkant7890 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Har du några rekommendationer om saker man kan göra?

    • @gruvazhe
      @gruvazhe 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@readisgooddewaterkant7890 va?

  • @BradyPostma
    @BradyPostma 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was hoping you would pronounce the capital city's name. Very informative video, apart from that point.

  • @kingbuckyduck5669
    @kingbuckyduck5669 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had a friend who’s father was from the Aland Islands, and was very patriotic. He spoke fluent Swedish, and loved talking about his heritage. His family go back every year. He used to (USED TO) have a license plate that just said “ALAND” with the Aland flag on it as well. Cool guy!

  • @larsboman6566
    @larsboman6566 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Åland is my favorit

  • @abcdeefgggg
    @abcdeefgggg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have few questons for people living in Åland: Do you guys think you are more swedish or finnish? And if you watch sport, like ice hockey, Do you cheer Sweden or Finland, or both? And the last one, if you could choose, do you want belong to sweden, or Finland? Would be nice if you answer

    • @kastelholm
      @kastelholm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The genuine Ålanders don't don't consider themselves to be Finns. Neither to be Swedes. To be just Ålanders is good enough. We don't need to be anything else. But when it comes to sports, and particularly hockey, then the Ålanders are VERY FINNISH. Nothing feels better for most Ålanders than beating Sweden in hockey!

    • @dietzraimonds69
      @dietzraimonds69 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Göran Lindebäck we ar finns idiot

    • @dietzraimonds69
      @dietzraimonds69 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Finland ofc in hockey if u support Sweden ur gay and hated. We ar likr other Swedishspeaking finns

    • @askman1116
      @askman1116 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dietzraimonds69 If you don't speak Finnish as your mother tongue you are not really that Finnish

    • @dietzraimonds69
      @dietzraimonds69 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      askimies 111 I am Finnish if I am Finnish

  • @mulwnas758
    @mulwnas758 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Åland's flag is my favorite🇦🇽

  • @arvid575
    @arvid575 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Quite a good video but I have one problem. The general consensus on the island today is absolutely not that we would like to be part of Sweden, that might have been the case 70 years ago but now we are happily a part of Finland. We are finns that speak swedish but that doesnt make us any less finnish than someone who speaks finnish. 99% of the population identify themselfes as finns and feel a much closer connection to Finland than Sweden.

    • @loki76
      @loki76 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I doubt most Alanders are ethnic Finns. Perhaps a mix. I guess that is what time does to you.. Alanders wanted to be with Sweden in the 1920s and the hundred years previous to that as well.

    • @potatofuryy
      @potatofuryy ปีที่แล้ว

      ⁠@@loki76 Ethnic finns are a pretty small minority. People also don’t want to become part of Sweden now because the current situation works well, most Ålänningar travel much more to Sweden than Finland anyway lol.

  • @kattymeow2825
    @kattymeow2825 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    There's 6757 island in Åland right now, not 6200
    *I mean you were pretty close*

  • @norrisaedits
    @norrisaedits 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i live in åland

  • @charleskristiansson1296
    @charleskristiansson1296 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Aland also has its passport.

  • @SparkyDiesAlot
    @SparkyDiesAlot 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The real reason why åland really stayed with FInland is because we actually bothered defending them in the second world war

    • @samuelsomfan
      @samuelsomfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Defending åland"
      Well you were defending the whole of finland, not just åland.

    • @svantecarlson6191
      @svantecarlson6191 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sweden wasn’t at war with either the Soviet Union or Germany, so why would they defend it?

    • @AlfaGiuliaQV
      @AlfaGiuliaQV 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You mean 20 years before the second world war?

    • @tf5
      @tf5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Åland stayed with Finland because the League of Nations decided it. What was Sweden to do, launch an offensive against Finland, who had been one and the same country for 800 years? In the second world war, Åland didn't need to be defended, as it was never attacked. Sweden did, however, provide enormous amounts of support to Finland, in food, clothes, and huge amounts of it's military. More specifically, Sweden gave away: 135,402 rifles, 347 machine guns, and 450 light machine guns with 50,013,300 rounds of small arms ammunition 144 field guns, 100 anti-aircraft guns and 92 anti-tank guns with 301,846 shells 300 naval mines and 500 depth charges, 17 fighter aircraft, five light bombers, one DC-2 transport aircraft turned into a bomber, and three reconnaissance aircraft to Finland. Protecting the brother nation and the Swedish diaspora in Finland was something Sweden took very seriously, so even daring to say something like what you did is honestly shameful. Millions upon millions of dollars were poured into Finland. Thousands of volunteers fought the Soviets. Honour their sacrifice.

    • @potatofuryy
      @potatofuryy ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah no it’s because you forced us to stay lol, anyway its all good now.

  • @turbopowersystems
    @turbopowersystems ปีที่แล้ว

    Åland 💗

  • @calbackk
    @calbackk ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It seems that foreign "historians" have a very hard time getting their heads around that Finland and Sweden just was one country. There was no occupation nor colonization.

  • @incrediblestudios5609
    @incrediblestudios5609 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live in Sweden 🇸🇪

  • @mevaa0751
    @mevaa0751 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I live there

  • @ericboom1712
    @ericboom1712 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Since i am swedish you would probably except me too want Åland too rejoin sweden, but since sweden increasingly becoming a worse and worse country i believe they will probably have it better under Finland.

    • @kittealand
      @kittealand ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Extremely few people here on Åland wish we would belong to Sweden. I'd say more than 90% think the current situation is the best.

  • @astrid674
    @astrid674 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live on Åland ❤️🇦🇽

  • @sund4169
    @sund4169 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Guys ödkarby in saltvik best place I promise

    • @judebog3153
      @judebog3153 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      FarCredZ nej

    • @judebog3153
      @judebog3153 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stan strandnäs

    • @sund4169
      @sund4169 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@judebog3153 okej

    • @Krabadaque
      @Krabadaque 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      No. It's Godby, which BTW is mentioned in print already in the 24th century!

    • @dietzraimonds69
      @dietzraimonds69 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stäni Steinbock bra där Godby är bäst

  • @sund4169
    @sund4169 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey that's where I live

  • @519djw6
    @519djw6 ปีที่แล้ว

    *You got the geographical position of Turku wrong--and put it where Helsinki is. Otherwise a very good video.🙂*

  • @trevormadsen
    @trevormadsen ปีที่แล้ว

    It is boring to live in a 30000 populated country!
    Especially the red roads make you crazy!

  • @hectorcruzmartino4861
    @hectorcruzmartino4861 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So its like puerto rico?

  • @samsheppard8265
    @samsheppard8265 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    WHAT IS THIS PLACE?? - Lake inari

  • @antolinimora2181
    @antolinimora2181 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Que hermoso país

  • @MrLegenden
    @MrLegenden 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    question to ålanders: indentefierar ni er som finländare eller svenkar?

    • @MrFinlandsuomi
      @MrFinlandsuomi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Givetvis Fin.

    • @AlfaGiuliaQV
      @AlfaGiuliaQV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Som ålänningar.

    • @MrLegenden
      @MrLegenden 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AlfaGiuliaQV ja glömde det

  • @jordanweir7187
    @jordanweir7187 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    awesome place bro but if u could slo down a bit that'd be great lel

  • @xxadzchu100
    @xxadzchu100 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love Åland islands greetings from mexico.

  • @Dr.Oppenheimer-Style
    @Dr.Oppenheimer-Style 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    D'accord mec on a compris que tu es francais tu n'as pas besoin de nous flexer decu avec ton belle accent