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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.

[edit] Changes

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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current19:24, 23 November 2007230×400 (2 KB)Pudeo (Sorry, Tampere is Finnish. Now compressed version 1.82 KB)
19:19, 28 October 2007230×400 (2 KB)Samulili ({{do not overwrite}})
13:59, 21 October 2007230×400 (6 KB)Pudeo (Tampere pois, ei kaksikielinen. Kumma poikkeus muuten kartassa, ja kuvateksteihin tulee liikaa selitettävää kun pitää poikkeuksetkin selittää.)
01:34, 19 February 2007230×400 (2 KB)Tene (Optimised (0))
12:38, 19 February 2006230×400 (5 KB)Tuohirulla
23:32, 25 January 2006230×400 (5 KB)Tuohirulla (different shades of blue added to tell about different types of bilingualism)
21:48, 25 January 2006230×400 (4 KB)Tuohirulla (better colours)
21:38, 25 January 2006230×400 (4 KB)Tuohirulla
21:04, 25 January 2006230×400 (4 KB)Tuohirulla (Added Hanko)
20:15, 25 January 2006230×400 (4 KB)Tuohirulla (Inside blue areas are communities with more than 8 % or more than 3000 individuals of Swedish population. These areas are formally bilingual. Swedish speakers also exists sparsely at other areas. Source: [http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/Default.asp?id=122)
21:26, 8 August 2005230×400 (4 KB)Fragwürdig
15:50, 3 July 2005230×400 (4 KB)Fragwürdig (* The map shows a rough sketch of the swedishspeaking and swedish-finnish bilingual areas in Finland. * Made by user:fragwürdig 3/7/2005, based on fi:Kuva:Suomen-läänit-template.png by fi:Käyttäjä:Jniemenmaa {{GFDL}})
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