Pride from Åland

This is the first postcard I’ve received from Åland, which as its own country-code on Postcrossing! If you’re not familiar with the island territory, it’s an autonomous area of Finland situated between Turku, Finland and Stockholm, Sweden and Finland’s only monolingual Swedish-speaking area. Finland itself is officially bilingual (Finnish and Swedish), and also recognizes other regional languages. I love that Åland has its own postage stamps as well!

On my Postcrossing profile, I invite senders to tell me about LGBTQ life where they live, which I think explains why this person sent me the Pride flag! What a great gift in my mailbox!