Archipelago Sea

The Archipelago Sea is the part of the Baltic Sea between the main islands of and the mainland. It is one of the largest archipelagos in the world, by count of islands and islets, with the biggest islands being some ten to twenty kilometres across, some of the inhabited islands less than a kilometre, and thousands of skerries.
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is oldest city, and used to be the country's largest until the mid-19th century. Believed to have been founded in the early 13th century, it is the cradle of modern Finnish culture and has extensively influenced Finnish history.

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is a town near in Western Finland. It is a very popular tourist destination in the summer. The municipality now includes much of the northern Archipelago Sea.

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, literally Kimito Island, is a municipality in the Archipelago Sea, . The main island is a large coastal island with rural landscape typical for southern Finland.

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Places to explore: Nagu and Pargas.

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is a former municipality in the Archipelago Sea in south-west . It consists of two main islands and some three thousand minor ones.

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Pargas] is a small town in , the only real town in the Archipelago Sea. The town regards itself as the capital of the south-west part of the archipelago.

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is a former municipality in the Archipelago Sea in . It consists of about 700 islands with 19 villages. has about 520 permanent residents but many more reside there in the summer.

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is one of the former municipalities in the Archipelago Sea in . It includes a lot of small islands, among them important destinations such as and . This guide is about the main island and a few adjacent ones.

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is an island far out in the Archipelago Sea, with its lighthouse welcoming ships arriving to south-western Finland from the Baltic Sea. It lacks wood or farmland, the village ducking into the little shelter given by the rocks.

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is a former municipality, in the Archipelago Sea in south-west . It consists of a group of four main islands and over one thousand minor ones.

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is an island in the southern part of the Archipelago Sea, in the outer archipelago, with rich bird life and special nature. It is the furthest off-coast island in the Archipelago Sea you can explore within a day trip from the mainland with a ferry.

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is a large island in the Archipelago Sea National Park in . It is quite easily reachable – a one-hour ferry trip from Kasnäs in through the inner archipelago – but still more or less by the open sea, and its sandy shores and meadows provide biotopes seldom found in the rest of Finland.

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is a skerry in the outer archipelago of the Archipelago Sea in , at the entrance to Gulf of Finland, with the tallest lighthouse in the . It is open for visitors, providing dinners, accommodation and sauna.

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is an island and village in the Archipelago Sea, in the centre of the quite open archipelago south of .

Archipelago Sea

  • Type: Sea
  • Description: part of the Baltic Sea
  • Also known as: “Archipel de Turku”, “Arcipelago Sea”, “mar del Archipielago”, “Maro de la Suoma Insularo”, “Pargas skärgård”, “Schären-Mier”, “Skargardshavet”, “Turkuer Schären”, “ים ארכיפלג”, “アーキペラゴ”, “アーキペラゴ海”, “サーリストメリ”, and “諸島海”
  • Category: locality
  • Location: , , , ,
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Latitude of center
59.9042° or 59° 54′ 15″ north
Longitude of center
21.9277° or 21° 55′ 40″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3570303559
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­sea
Geo­Names ID
812394
Wiki­data ID
Q650654
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Archipelago Sea” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Deti Arkipelag”
  • Arabic: “بحر الأرخبيل”
  • Armenian: “Արշիպելագի ծով”
  • Azerbaijani: “Arxipelaq dənizi”
  • Basque: “Uhartediaren itsasoa”
  • Bengali: “সাগর দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Catalan: “mar de l’Arxipèlag”
  • Catalan: “Mar de l’Arxipèlag”
  • Catalan: “Mar de lArxipèlag”
  • Cebuano: “Saaristomeri”
  • Chinese: “群岛海”
  • Chinese: “群島海”
  • Czech: “Ostrovní moře”
  • Danish: “Skærgårdshavet”
  • Dutch: “Archipelzee”
  • Dutch: “Finse archipel”
  • Dutch: “Scherenzee”
  • Esperanto: “Maro de la Finna Insularo”
  • Estonian: “Saaristomeri”
  • Finnish: “Saaristomeri”
  • French: “archipel finlandais”
  • French: “Archipel finlandais”
  • Galician: “Mar do Arquipélago”
  • German: “Schärenmeer”
  • Hebrew: “ים הארכיפלג”
  • Hungarian: “Szigetvilág-tenger”
  • Icelandic: “Skerjagarðshaf”
  • Inari Sami: “Suáluikuávlumeerâ”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Kepulauan”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Saaristomeri”
  • Italian: “Saaristomeri”
  • Japanese: “フィンランド多島海域”
  • Japanese: “多島海”
  • Korean: “핀란드 다도해”
  • Latvian: “Šēru jūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Archipelago jūra”
  • Luxembourgish: “Finneschen Archipel”
  • Macedonian: “Архипелашко Море”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kûn-tó Hái”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Skjærgårdshavet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skjergardshavet”
  • Norwegian: “Skjærgårdshavet”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਹੀਰਾ ਸਮੁੰਦਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਹੀਰਾ ਸਾਗਰ”
  • Persian: “دریای مجمع‌الجزایر”
  • Polish: “Morze Archipelagowe”
  • Portuguese: “Mar do Arquipélago”
  • Romanian: “Marea Arhipelagului”
  • Russian: “Архипелаговое море”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Muir na h-Innis-Mhara”
  • Serbian: “Архипелагово море”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Arhipelaško more”
  • Sicilian: “Mari di l’Arcipèlacu”
  • Sicilian: “Mari di lArcipèlacu”
  • Slovenian: “Arhipelaško morje”
  • Spanish: “mar del Archipiélago”
  • Spanish: “Mar del Archipiélago”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Funguvisiwa”
  • Swedish: “Skärgårdshavet”
  • Turkish: “Takımada Denizi”
  • Ukrainian: “Архіпелагове море”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ مجموعہ الجزائر”
  • Venetian: “Mar del Arsipèłago”
  • Western Panjabi: “مجمع الجزائر سمندر”
  • Wu Chinese: “群岛海”

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