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The Bothnian Bay or Bay of Bothnia () is the most northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia
Gulf of Bothnia

The Gulf of Bothnia is the northernmost ar






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The Bothnian Bay or Bay of Bothnia () is the most northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia
Gulf of Bothnia

The Gulf of Bothnia is the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It is situated between Finland's west coast and Sweden's east coast. In the south of the gulf lie the ?land, between the Sea of ?land and the Archipelago Sea....
, the northern part of the Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....
. Its northernmost point is situated in Töre
Töre

T?re is a village in Kalix municipality in Norrbotten, Sweden. Its harbour is the northernmost of the Bothnian Bay that is accessible to commercial vessels. The European route E10 passes through T?re....
. The bay is bounded by Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
 to the east, Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 to the west, and the Kvarken
Kvarken

Kvarken is the narrow region in the Gulf of Bothnia separating the Bothnian Bay from the Bothnian Sea. The distance from Swedish mainland to Finnish mainland is around 80 km while the distance between the outmost islands is only 25 km....
 sound to the south.

Major ports on Finnish side are the ports in Oulu
Port of Oulu

Port of Oulu is a complex of four separate harbours located at the mouth of Oulujoki river in Oulu, Finland. Port of Oulu is a corporation owned by the City of Oulu....
, Kemi and Raahe.

The maximum depth of bay is .

The bay has the highest rate of rising of land by post-glacial rebound
Post-glacial rebound

Post-glacial rebound is the rise of land masses that were depressed by the huge weight of ice sheets during the last glacial period, through a process known as isostatic depression....
 in the Baltic Sea.