Föglö

Föglö
Föglö
Municipality
	Föglö kommun
	Flag Coat of arms
	Location of Föglö in Finland
	Föglö Location in Åland
	Coordinates: 60°01′50″N 020°23′15″E / 60.03056°N 20.38750°E
Country	Finland
Region	Åland
Sub-region	Archipelago
Seat	Degerby
Government
• Municipal manager	Niklas Eriksson
Area (2018-01-01)
• Total	1,869.07 km2 (721.65 sq mi)
• Land	134.77 km2 (52.03 sq mi)
• Water	1,734.24 km2 (669.59 sq mi)
• Rank	286th largest in Finland
Population (2025-12-31)
• Total	512
• Rank	302nd largest in Finland
• Density	3.8/km2 (9.8/sq mi)
Population by native language
• Swedish	79.7% (official)
• Finnish	3.7%
• Others	16.6%
Population by age
• 0 to 14	13.7%
• 15 to 64	54.8%
• 65 or older	31.6%
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Website	www.foglo.ax

Föglö is a group of islands and municipality in Åland, an autonomous territory of Finland.

The municipality has a population of 512 (31 December 2025)^[2] and covers an area of 1,869.07 square kilometres (721.65 sq mi) of which 1,734.24 km² (669.59 sq mi) is water.^[1] The population density is 3.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (9.8/sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Swedish, yet in the last decade^{[needs update]} there has been some immigration from Estonia and Latvia due to the need of employees at the fish farms, the main industry in Föglö. The municipality is connected only by ferries to Lumparland which has a road connection to Mariehamn, and by ferries to mainland Finland.

Erik Adolf von Willebrand discovered von Willebrand disease of the blood by observing a family in Föglö.

Håkan Skogsjö has documented the permanently residing population of Föglö from the 17th century to the present, covering the history of the municipality as a whole, its individual hamlets, down to each original farmstead and the families who lived there.^[4]

References

1 2 "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
1 2 3 "Population growth slowed down in 2025". Population structure. Statistics Finland. 1 April 2026. ISSN 2243-3627. Retrieved 6 April 2026.
↑ "Population according to age (1-year) and sex by area and the regional division of each statistical reference year, 2003–2020". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
↑ Skogsjö, Håkan (2009). Ålands släktregister. D. 9:1 Familjer och gårdar i Föglö: från stormaktstid till nutid (in Swedish). Mariehamn: SkogsjöMedia. pp. 1–730. ISBN 9789526715414. – Skogsjö, Håkan (2009). Ålands släktregister. D. 9:2 Familjer och gårdar i Föglö: från stormaktstid till nutid (in Swedish). Mariehamn: SkogsjöMedia. pp. 1–738. ISBN 9789526715421.