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MariehamnMariehamn is the capital of land, an autonomous territory under Finnish sovereignty. As of 31 January 2005 the population of Mariehamn was 10,716 — almost half of the population of land lives there. The area of Mariehamn municipality is 11 km². The town, founded in 1861, was named after Marie Alexandrovna, the Empress consort of Alexander II of Russia. Its name in Finnish — as sometimes given on maps and in other Finnish-language documents — is Maarianhamina. Mariehamn is the seat of the Government and Parliament of land. Like all of land, Mariehamn is unilingually Swedish-speaking and around 91% of the inhabitants have Swedish as their native language.
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