M?rket (“The Make”, Swedish pronunciation: [?maerk?t]) is a tiny 3.3-hectare (8.2-acre) uninhabited skerry in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland (in the region of the autonomous ?land Islands), with a lighthouse as its salient manmade feature. M?rket has been divided between your two sovereignties because the Treaty of Fredrikshamn of 1809 described the boundary between Sweden and the Russian Empire as going right through the center of the island. The Finnish part of the island is area of the Municipality of Hammarland and it is the westernmost land point of Finland. The Swedish area of the island is itself divided by two counties of Sweden: Uppsala State (?sthammar Municipality) and Stockholm Region (Norrt?lje Municipality).
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