The State Provincial Office on the Åland Islands (
Government of Finland. In Åland the State Provincial Office also represented a set of other authorities of the central government, which in mainland-Finland
has separate bureaucracies. On the other hand duties, which on mainland-Finland were handled by the provincial offices, were transferred to the autonomous government of Åland.
Along with the abolition of all Provinces of Finland, the Åland State Provincial Office was replaced by the State Department of Åland in 2009.
