Lumparland is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
of
Ã…land
Ã…land ( , ; ) is an Federacy, autonomous and Demilitarized zone, demilitarised region of Finland. Receiving its autonomy by a 1920 decision of the League of Nations, it is the smallest region of Finland by both area () and population (30,54 ...
, an autonomous territory of
Finland
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. It is the smallest municipality on mainland Ã…land.
The municipality has a population of ()
and covers an area of of which is water.
The
population density
Population density (in agriculture: Standing stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geog ...
is . The municipality is unilingually
Swedish.
The main village is Klemetsby, where there is a bank, a church, a post office and a school. Klemetsby is away from
Mariehamn
Mariehamn ( , ; ; ) is the capital of Ã…land, an autonomous territory under Finnish sovereignty. Mariehamn is the seat of the Government and Parliament of Ã…land, and 40% of the population of Ã…land live in the city. It is mostly surrounded b ...
along the
Highway 3. The ferry port of
Långnäs 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.
Geography
Lumparland borders the eastern edge of a billion-year-old nine-kilometer wide water filled
impact crater
An impact crater is a depression (geology), depression in the surface of a solid astronomical body formed by the hypervelocity impact event, impact of a smaller object. In contrast to volcanic craters, which result from explosion or internal c ...
,
Lumparn, which is devoid of islands.
Lumpokasen () is the highest point in the municipality.
Historic population
Håkan Skogsjö
Lars Håkan Skogsjö (born 11 November 1958, in Mölndal, Sweden) is a Swedish-Ålandic journalist and author and a veteran in the Swedish genealogy movement. He lives since 1989 permanently in Mariehamn, Åland, an autonomous region of Finlan ...
has documented the permanently residing population of Lumparland from the 17th century to the present, covering the history of the municipality as a whole, its individual hamlets, down to each original
farmstead
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and the families who lived there.
Economy
Agriculture and tourism are the most important lines of business in Lumparland.
Sights
The Church of Lumparland, dedicated to
St. Andrew
Andrew the Apostle ( ; ; ; ) was an apostle of Jesus. According to the New Testament, he was a fisherman and one of the Apostles in the New Testament, Twelve Apostles chosen by Jesus.
The title First-Called () used by the Eastern Orthodox Chu ...
, is the oldest surviving wooden church in Ã…land, dating back to the 1720s. Inside the church, the altar painting is the work of
Victor Westerholm. There is also a miniature ship from 1836 inside the church.
Notable people
*
Robert Helenius (born 1984), a professional boxer
References
External links
Municipality of Lumparland– Official website
Map of Lumparland municipality
Municipalities of Ã…land
Port cities and towns in Finland
Port cities and towns of the Baltic Sea
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