Bogskär is a small group of

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islets off the southernmost tip of

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

. It is Finland's southernmost land and governed by the municipality of

Kökar Kökar () is an island municipality to the south-east of the Åland archipelago, Finland. It is also one of the municipalities of Åland. It is reachable by boat from Långnäs on Åland or from Galtby with access to mainland Finland. The munic ...

Åland Åland ( fi, Ahvenanmaa: ; ; ) is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland since 1920 by a decision of the League of Nations. It is the smallest region of Finland by area and population, with a size of 1,580 km2, and a populat ...

. The islets are remote: the distance to the nearest large islands in Kökar, Föglö and Lemland is over . Bogskär is so remote that it is located outside the

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of Finland, and has its own, separate internal waters. Up to 1995, even its

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were separate from the rest of Finland. When the territorial waters were expanded from a limit of to , the territorials waters merged. Even today, territorial waters extend only south of Bogskär.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bogskar Landforms of Åland Finnish islands in the Baltic

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