This famous site, called Kuhankuono in Finnish, is also a pre-historical border mark between Finland Proper and the other Finnish provinces.

The great majority of these came from the Finnish provinces of Uusimaa, Turku-and-Pori, Häme, and Viipuri.

In 1357, Benedict was exiled and Scania as well as several other Swedish and Finnish provinces were given to the young king Eric.

The Finnish provinces were ceded to Imperial Russia in the War of Finland in 1809.

The flag has been the official flag of the autonomous Finnish province of Åland since 1954.

Finnish provinces at Flags of the World.

Suomen Partiolaiset is divided in 18 Scout districts, which resemble the former Finnish provinces.

Ahtisaari kept his campaign promise to visit one Finnish historical province every month during his presidency.

While Öland changed its coat of arms, Åland, which was now a Finnish (autonomous) province, kept its established but originally unintended coat of arms.

He was of course well aware of the Swedish campaign to incorporate Norway as a substitution for the lost Finnish provinces.