Time zone EET (UTC+2) Municipal tax rate 17.5% | Region Åland Website www.vardo.ax Local time Wednesday 4:16 PM | |
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Sub-region Åland Archipelago sub-region Area rank 298th largest in Finland Weather 9°C, Wind SW at 18 km/h, 56% Humidity Area 101.7 km² (101.5 km² Land / 471.2 km² Water) | ||
Vårdö is an island municipality of Åland, an autonomous territory of Finland.
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The municipality has a population of 433 (31 March 2016) and covers an area of 101.73 square kilometres (39.28 sq mi) of which 471.16 km2 (181.92 sq mi) is water. The population density is 4.27 inhabitants per square kilometre (11.1/sq mi).
The municipality is unilingually Swedish.
Two notable Finnish authors, Sally Salminen and Anni Blomqvist, were born in Vårdö. Blomqvist spent her whole life on the small Vårdö island of Simskäla.
References
Vårdö Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA