Lumparland is a municipality of Åland, an autonomous territory of Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. It is the smallest municipality on mainland Åland.

The municipality has a population of and covers an area of km2 of which km2 is water. The population density

Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans...

 is PD/km2. The municipality is unilingually Swedish

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...

.

The main village is Klemetsby, where there is a bank, a church, a post office and a school. Klemetsby is 35 kilometres (21.7 mi) away from Mariehamn

Mariehamn

Mariehamn is the capital of Åland, an autonomous territory under Finnish sovereignty. Mariehamn is the seat of the Government and Parliament of Åland, and 40% of the population of Åland live in the city...

. The ferry port of Långnäs

Långnäs

Långnäs is a port in Lumparland on the eastern mainland of Åland. Road ferries to Kumlinge and Galtby via Kökar start here. In the early 1960s, Silja Line built a ferry terminal in Långnäs, designed by architect Bengt Lundsten. The terminal was in use 1965-1975 and was then closed and removed in...

 is situated in the eastern part of Lumparland.

Lumparland was the last municipality in Finland to establish its own website which happened in 2004.

The municipality has previously also been known as "'Lumparlanti" in some Finnish documents, but is today referred to as "Lumparland" also in Finnish.

Sights

The Church of Lumparland, dedicated to St. Andrew

Saint Andrew

Saint Andrew , called in the Orthodox tradition Prōtoklētos, or the First-called, is a Christian Apostle and the brother of Saint Peter. The name "Andrew" , like other Greek names, appears to have been common among the Jews from the 3rd or 2nd century BC. No Hebrew or Aramaic name is recorded for him...

, is the oldest surviving wooden church in Åland, dating back to the 1720s. Inside the church, the altar painting is the work of Victor Westerholm

Victor Westerholm

Victor Axel Westerholm was a Finnish landscape painter.-Life:Victor Westerholm was born at Turku, Finland on January 4, 1860 and died in Turku on 19 November 1919.He first studied under Eugen Dücker in Düsseldorf...

. There is also a miniature ship from 1836 inside the church.

Geography

Lumparland borders the eastern edge of a 1000-million-year-old nine-kilometer wide water filled impact crater

Impact crater

In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...

, Lumparn

Lumparn

Lumparn is a large bay devoid of islands in the Main Island of Åland, Finland, bordered by Sund to the north, Lumparland to the east, Lemland to the south and Jomala to the west....

, which is devoid of islands.

Lumpokasen (60.7 m (199.1 ft)) is the highest point in the municipality.

External links

• Municipality of Lumparland – Official website
• Map of Lumparland municipality