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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jonesy" data-source="post: 1970218" data-attributes="member: 10324">Well, Ahvenanmaa is very tricky in that regard (oh and I probably should have called it Åland, since that is the name the people who live there use).- While a demilitarized zone, the Finnish military protects its territories.- The UN recognizes them as an autonomous region, but they still use the Finnish representation there to run their affairs in the UN.- While the official first language of Finland is Finnish and the secondary Swedish, Ålands primary is Swedish and they have no obligation to offer any services in the Finnish language.- They have a special partnership with the IOC, yet they compete under the Finnish flag.- They have their own parliament, even though they have people in the Finnish parliament.- For visa purposes (as far as I can tell) they act as if they were both a separate country in the EU and a part of Finland.- They are under the Finnish legislation, but can make their own laws.In other words, I have no idea whatsoever.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>