Hammarland

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Hammarlands kommun
Coat of Arms Location
Province Åland
Region Åland
Sub-region countryside
Area
- Of which land
- Rank
135.21km²
133.22km²
ranked 384th
Population
- Density
- Change
- Rank
1,409 (2007)
10.6 inh./km²
- 1.0%
ranked 389th (2005)
Urbanisation 23.7%
Unemployment 1.8%
Official languages Swedish
Municipal manager Kurt Carlsson
Home page www.hammarland.aland.fi

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

The municipality has a population of 1,409 and covers an area of 135.21 km² of which 1.99 km² is water. The population density is 10.6 inhabitants per km².

The municipality is unilingually Swedish. 96.0 percent of its population has Swedish as their native language, making Hammarland one of the municipalities with the highest percentage of Swedish-speakers in Finland, and possibly in the world.

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Coordinates: 60°13′00″N, 19°44′25″E