page_title: Baltic Sea
section_title: Islands and archipelagoes
hierarchical_section_title: Baltic Sea / Geography / Islands and archipelagoes
caption_attribution_description: English: Korsö, Kroksö and Sandön (Sandhamn) islands.
context_page_description: The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, northeast Germany, Poland, Russia and the North and Central European Plain.
  The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 10°E to 30°E longitude. A marginal sea of the Atlantic, with limited water exchange between the two water bodies, the Baltic Sea drains through the Danish Straits into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, Great Belt and Little Belt. It includes the Gulf of Bothnia, the Bay of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland, the Gulf of Riga and the Bay of Gdańsk.
  The Baltic Proper is bordered on its northern edge, at the latitude 60°N, by the Åland Islands and the Gulf of Bothnia, on its northeastern edge by the Gulf of Finland, on its eastern edge by the Gulf of Riga, and in the west by the Swedish part of the southern Scandinavian Peninsula.
  The Baltic Sea is connected by artificial waterways to the White Sea via the White Sea-Baltic Canal and to the German Bight of the North Sea via the Kiel Canal.
context_section_description: Åland Islands (Finland, autonomous)
  Archipelago Sea (Finland)
  Pargas
  Nagu
  Korpo
  Houtskär
  Kustavi
  Kimito
  Blekinge archipelago (Sweden)
  Bornholm, including Christiansø (Denmark)
  Falster (Denmark)
  Gotland (Sweden)
  Hailuoto (Finland)
  Kotlin (Russia)
  Lolland (Denmark)
  Kvarken archipelago, including Valsörarna (Finland)
  Møn (Denmark)
  Öland (Sweden)
  Rügen (Germany)
  Stockholm archipelago (Sweden)
  Värmdön (Sweden)
  Usedom or Uznam (split between Germany and Poland)
  West Estonian archipelago (Estonia):
  Hiiumaa
  Muhu
  Saaremaa
  Vormsi
  Wolin (Poland)
  Zealand (Denmark)
caption: Stockholm archipelago
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