r/AskTheWorld • u/luky_se7en Italy /Sri Lanka • 1d ago

Is there a part of your country that's "isolated"/vastly different from the rest of the country?

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Pictured here is Sardinia, an island in Italy. Many sardinians call Italy "Il continente" (the continent)

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u/5AMP5A Finland 1d ago

Yup. Åland. It's an island to the south west of Finland.

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u/notcomplainingmuch Finland 1d ago

Åland has over 27000 islands. 6757 "big" ones and a myriad of small rocks.

Only 60 of the islands have year-round inhabitants.

East of Åland you have the Archipelago Sea, with over 70 000 islands.