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• Blue: Areas of swedish speakers in Finland

• Lightest blue: bi-lingual municipalities with Finnish majority
• Middle blue: bi-lingual municipalities with Swedish majority
• Darkest blue: unilingually Swedish municipalities

• Beige: unilingually Finnish municipalities

The map shows a sketch of the swedish-speaking and swedish-finnish bilingual areas in Finland. Municipalities outside the blue marked area have less than 8% and less than 1000 individuals speaking Swedish. Blue areas are formally bi-lingual or swedish speaking. In Tampere (the gray dot) there are 0.5% of total population and about 1000 individuals speaking swedish in the year of 1999.

• Made by user:fragwürdig 3/7/2005, based on fi:Kuva:Suomen-läänit-template.png by fi:Käyttäjä:Jniemenmaa

Updated by User:Tuohirulla Source: Maanmittauslaitos. Choose link from: Suomen kunnat tilaston pohjakartoilla 1.1.2005 Some changes were made to the last version. The most important changes:

• Kotka, Finnish municipality with only 1.1% swedish population (less than 600 swedish individuals in 1999, as much as there are foreigners in Kotka, also 1.1%) was changed to Finnish area
• Dragsfjärd islands changed to islands
• Added Hanko, the southernmost tip of Finland
• Traditionally finnish speaking north Bothnic areas which are also unilingually finnish municipalities were changed to Finnish areas. These municipalities are:

• Lohtaja with 0.7 per cent of population or 22 individuals being Swedish in the year of 1999
• Kälviä with 1.4%/63 individuals
• Kannus with 0.4%/25 individuals
• Himanka with 0.6%/19 individuals
• Kalajoki 0.3%/24 individuals
• and Pyhäjoki with 0.2% or 7 individuals speaking Swedish [1]

• Added Tampere with about 1000 swedish speakers, 0.5% of its total population, as a gray dot
• Coloured swedish-majority municipalities with blue. Source[2] These include municipalities of Åland islands and and from continental Finland the following:

• Liljendal and Pernaja from eastern Uusimaa
• Tammisaari, Inkoo and Karjaa from Uusimaa
• From Varsinaissuomi all the bilingual municipalities exept Turku (Särkisalo is too small to be shown with this pixel size)

• Coloured bilingually swedish municipalities with darkest blue

• From bothnia all the bilingual municipalities exept Vaasa and Kaskinen

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