File talk:Finland-swedish.jpg

  This map shows many mainly Finnish speaking areas of Finland as Swedish speaking. I added a note that even in many of these areas swedish is a minority language.

Even though, Helsinki should be green and the minority areas with a weaker yellow to give a more realistic picture. Zeal 17:29, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Such maps exist, where there are differen colours for bilingual minicipalities with finnis or swedish as majority or minority language and for unilingual municipalities with finnish or swedisah as the main language. A much bigger problem, howerer, is that the border of Swedish speaking area in this map is highly inaccurate with inaccuracies of at least 50 km if not even 100 km. As such this map is of very little value.--Urjanhai (talk) 12:41, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Also the discussion about deletion is very badly informed: the other version was much less inaccurate. In this map whole municipalities in finnish speaking area are roughly painted as swedish speaking against all facts. Of course there are swedish speakers outside the bilingual municipalities in monolingually finnish speaking municipalities, but they are not in any way and by no means consentrated in the countryside near the bilingual municipalities at the coast. Rather, they are concentrated in bigger cities and their nearby municipalities in each pvovince and the country as a whole (as well as the saami, very big part of whom live in helsinki). (This is what I guess, and in statistics, I guess, this could be observed). Of course it is true that for the representation of the swedish speaking area in general one shade would be better, but then the borders of yhe area should be more accurate due to facts mentioned above in my comment, because painting the borders roughly and extending them to the nearby unilingually finnish speaking areas does not make the map any much accurate but on the contrary erraneous and inaccurate.--Urjanhai (talk) 13:01, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

And because in Atlas of Svenskfinland there are better maps, a map like this would do better if not used at all. Anyone who knows Finland will see at one glance which of the map are exacct and which are drawn roughly with free hand and with no knowledge whatsoever about the finnish reality. And this opinion of mine has nothing to do with the anti-swedish political movents in Finlad, which I find stupid (or in swedish motbjudande) but simply the cartrograpcic quality and accuracy of the maps.--Urjanhai (talk) 13:10, 25 June 2013 (UTC)