a steeper and more rugged coast on the Swedish side.

The Bothnian Bay has a catchment area of 260675 km2.Of this, 56% lies in Finland, 44% in Sweden and less than 1% in Norway.The catchment contains about 11500000 ha of forest, split roughly equally between Sweden and Finland.

The average depth is 41 m.The Luleå Deep is the deepest part of the bay, at 146 m, southeast of the town of Luleå.On the Finnish side the average depth is 30 m. The deepest part is near the island of Lönkytin,

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