Swedes in Finland

[Michael Schartau]

Dan wrote

> I'm confused. Why would Swedes in Finland want to form their own state when Sweden is right next door? All they'd have to do is get on a train and actually go there.-Dan
> -- 


They are not Swedes in Finland, but finns with swedish as their mother tongue. One part of Finland, the island Aaland (Ahvenanmaa), only have Swedish as official language. They wanted to belong to Sweden but the UN desided 1921 that the island should be an autonomy part of Finland.

/Michael