The ?land Islands, or simply ?land (/ ? T? l Y n d, ? Q? l Y n d /, US also / ? o? l Y n d, ? o? l Q? n (d), ? Q? l Q? n d /, Swedish: (), Finland Swedish: ; Finnish: Ahvenanmaa [?Qh?enQn?m?Q?]), is an archipelago at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea belonging to Finland.It is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland since 1920 by a ...