File talk:Historiska landskap i Sverige och Finland.png

How come the eastern border of Finland in this picture is in Karelia as it was before 1939 but in Salla and Kuusamo asit was after 1945 while the western border reflects the changes in 1809; if so, then there is an anacronism in the east. (And does anyone ever read these discussions?) Urjanhai (talk) 10:37, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

I am no specialist in the history of Finland and Sweden, just took the image File:Svpmap blank.png labelled in English, and translated the label to Esperanto (File:Historiaj provincoj de Svedio kaj Finnlando.png), German (File:Historische Landschaften Schwedens und Finnlands.png) and Swedish (File:Historiska landskap i Sverige och Finland.png). But it is clear to me that a "map about the historical provinces of the Swedish Kingdom including the eastern, mainly finnishspeaking provinces" has to reflect the situation of 1809 and clearly has to include Karelia. I don't doubt that your information about the border in Salla and Kuusamo is right, and also about the borders of historical provinces inside Finland. Only I don't think I am the right person to correct the inaccurate map. Being lithuanian, I'm just a neighbor, and in autumn I helped to expand the articles about historical and modern provinces in nowerdays Sweden and Finland in the Esperanto-Wikipedia, seeing the need to fill in more information there. Maybe you yourself could design the maps properly, or some other volonteer from Finland. My interest would just be to finally have identical maps labelled in english, german, esperanto, swedish and if possible finnish (or more languages if needed) - not just in english.

Aidas 10:51, 4. Dec 2009 (UTC)