Aland autonomous government hoists own flag

Aland autonomous government hoists own flag

LONDON, England - The Aland autonomous government of Finland hoists its own flag atop its office building in Mariehamn as seen in this file photo taken on Nov. 10, 2014. Japanese diplomat Inazo Nitobe was credited with the settlement of a territorial dispute between Sweden and Finland over the Swedish-speaking Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea in the early 1920s as undersecretary general of the League of Nations.

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