Lumparland

Lumparland is a municipality of Åland, an autonomous territory of Finland. It is the smallest municipality on mainland Åland. The municipality has a population of 371 (31 December 2025) and covers an area of 87.04 square kilometres (33.61 sq mi) of which 50.8 km2 (19.6 sq mi) is water. The population density is 10.21 inhabitants per square kilometre (26.4/sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Swedish. The main village is Klemetsby, where there is a bank, a church, a post office and a school. Klemetsby is 25 kilometres (16 mi) away from Mariehamn along the Highway 3. The ferry port of Långnäs is situated in the eastern part of Lumparland. Lumparland was the last municipality in Finland to establish its own website which happened in 2004. The municipality has previously also been known as "'Lumparlanti" in some Finnish documents, but is today referred to as "Lumparland" also in Finnish. According to a 2026 study by Iltalehti, the highest number of crimes against life and health of all Finnish municipalities (excluding cities) occurs in Lumparland; the ratio was 2.70 compared to the municipality's nearly 400 inhabitants. The Åland Police Department explained the statistical result by the Långnäs harbour used by cruise ships, and any crime committed on board is registered in the Lumparland municipality when, for example, the person who committed the crime is removed from the ship in Lumparland, where the police arrest person.