Content on Åland

The history of Åland’s legal status reflects key security issues in the area of the Baltic Sea for the last 100 years or more

Contemporary approaches to heritage in the autonomous regions shed light on old and new traditions.

The use of folk costumes is widespread in, for example, Åland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Sami areas and their social importance varies,…

Finland has two official languages, Finnish and Swedish, as a result of its more than 600-years as part of the Kingdom of Sweden (until 1809). While…

National museums in the Nordics retain an important role in the creation and maintenance of a particular view of a country, its people and often its…

Organisations exist to facilitate the discussion and coordination of policies in areas of joint interest to the Nordic countries. The Nordic Council…

The Nordic region, or Norden, may be defined as consisting of the five sovereign states Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, plus the three…

The Nordic countries have a particular parliamentary culture characterised by consensus and working across party lines. Their parliaments remain…

The Arctic Council was established in 1996 by the Ottawa Declaration with the intent of fostering “cooperation, coordination, and interaction between…

Linguistic minorities have existed for centuries, such as the Finns and Sami in Sweden. Since 1960s minority languages have often been associated with…