"The Bothnian Sea (Swedish: Bottenhavet, Finnish: Selk\u00E4meri) links the Bothnian Bay (also called the Bay of Bothnia) with the Baltic proper. Kvarken is situated between the two. Together, the Bothnian Sea and Bay make up a larger geographical entity, the Gulf of Bothnia. The whole Gulf of Bothnia is situated between Sweden, to the West, Finland, to the East, and the Sea of \u00C5land and Archipelago Sea to the South. The surface area of Bothnian Sea is approximately 79,000 km\u00B2."@en . . .