Vårdö
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| Vårdö kommun | |||||
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| Province | Åland | ||||
| Region | Åland | ||||
| Sub-region | archipelago | ||||
| Area - Of which land - Rank | 101.91km² 101.33km² 406th | ||||
| Population - Density - Rank - Change | 425 (2004) 4.2 inh./km² 424th + 1.9% | ||||
| Unemployment | 0.5% | ||||
| Official languages | Swedish | ||||
| Municipal manager | Magnus Sandberg | ||||
| Home page | [http://www.vardo.aland.fi/] | ||||
Vårdö is an island municipality of Åland, an autonomous territory of Finland.
The municipality has a population of 425 (2004) and covers an area of 101.91 km² of which 0.58 km² is water. The population density is 4.2 inhabitants per km².
The municipality is unilingually Swedish.
Two notable Finnish authors, Sally Salminen and Anni Blomqvist, were born in Vårdö. Blomqvist spent her whole life on the small Vårdö island of Simskäla.
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