Faroe Islands

Faroe Islands is a small country in the North Atlantic Ocean north of the United Kingdom and west of Norway. It is a nation of islands, and just like Åland, this country is not independent but only have autonomy, under danish soveregnithy.

The capital of Faroe Islands is Tórshavn with a population of 17 000 inhabitants.

The country is very rocky with alot of mountains, there is no deep forests on the islands. The official language is faroese and danish cause of its relationship to the mainland Denmark. Faroese is closely related to icelandic but also norwegian, this three languages is all the west-scandinavian languages.

Faroe Islands was since medival times under the rule of Norway, just like Iceland and Greenland at that time, but after the danish-swedish war, Norway came under swedish rule and Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland remained under the danish crown.

Åland

Åland, a small country of islands in the middle of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. Åland dont have their own independence but stand under the governement of Helsingfors, Finland.

Åland, like Finland was a part of Sweden once, but after a great war with Russia, the entire eastern part of the kingdom was fallen into russian rule, including Åland. Åland belonged thereafter under the Grand Duchy of Finland under the russian tsar. After the russian revolution Finland was independent and when the finnish nationalism started to grow, an opposite development was in Åland were the people wanted to belong to Sweden. This resulted in autonomy of Åland and an international demilitarized zone were either Finland nor Sweden or any other nation had rights to have army.

And even today Åland keep this autonomy, and in the present no big thoughts about independence is going on.

The capital of Åland is Mariehamn and reside on the biggest island.