Lapland, also known by its Swedish name Lappland (Northern Sami: Sápmi, Finnish: Lappi, Latin: Lapponia), is a province in northernmost Sweden. It borders...
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Lapland (Finnish: Lappi [ˈlɑpːi]; Northern Sami: Lappi; Inari Sami: Lappi; Swedish: Lappland; Latin: Lapponia; Skolt Sami: Ла̄ппӣ мäддкåҍддь, Lappi mäddkå'dd)...
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Fennoscandia (parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia) Lapland (Finland) (Lappi/Lappland), a Finnish region Lapland (former province of Finland) (Lappi/Lappland)...
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Norrbotten County (redirect from Norrbotten County, Lapland)
eastern part of Norrbotten County – the inland mostly belongs to the Swedish Lapland province (Lappland). The capital of Norrbotten is Luleå, whereas other...
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Lycksele (redirect from Lycksele Lapland Court District)
province of Lapland, Sweden with 8,513 inhabitants in 2010. Lycksele is the oldest lasting Sami settlement in Swedish Lappland. The first Swedish Sami school...
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Arvidsjaur (redirect from Arvidsjaur Lapland Court District)
seat of Arvidsjaur Municipality in Norrbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden with 4,635 inhabitants in 2010. Arvidsjaur is a center for the European...
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Kiruna (redirect from Kiruna, Sweden)
[ˈkiːrunɑ]) is the northernmost city in Sweden, situated in the province of Lapland. It had 17,002 inhabitants in 2016 and is the seat of Kiruna Municipality...
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exonyms, such as the Dales for Dalarna, East Gothland for Östergötland, Swedish Lapland for Lappland and West Bothnia for Västerbotten (and corresponding forms)...
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Gällivare Lapland Airport (IATA: GEV, ICAO: ESNG) is an airport located in Gällivare Municipality, Sweden, about 7 kilometres (4 mi) east from Gällivare...
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Västerbotten County (redirect from Västerbottens Län, Sweden)
Västerbotten, Lapland, and Ångermanland Västerbotten County, also known as Västerbottens län in Swedish, is located in the northern part of Sweden. It shares...
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Sápmi (redirect from Lapland (region))
Johannes Schefferus assumed the etymology of the term "Lapland" to be related to the Swedish word for "running", löpa (cognate with English, to leap)...
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Gällivare (category Lapland (Sweden))
the seat of Gällivare Municipality in Norrbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden with 8,449 inhabitants in 2010. The town was founded in the 17th century...
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Jukkasjärvi (redirect from Jukkasjärvi Lapland Court District)
Jukkasjärvi (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈjɵ̂kːasˌjærvɪ]; Sami: Čohkkiras) is a locality situated in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden with 548 inhabitants...
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The 21 municipalities of the Lapland Region (Finnish: Lappi; Northern Sami: Sápmi; Swedish: Lappland) in Finland are divided on six sub-regions: Kemijärvi...
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During World War II, the Lapland War (Finnish: Lapin sota; Swedish: Lapplandskriget; German: Lapplandkrieg) saw fighting between Finland and Nazi Germany...
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Jokkmokk (redirect from Jokkmokk Lapland Court District)
the seat of Jokkmokk Municipality in Norrbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden, with 2,786 inhabitants in 2010. The Lule Sami name of the place (composed...
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Kiruna mine (category 1898 establishments in Sweden)
Kiruna in Norrbotten County, Lapland, Sweden. The mine is owned by Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB (LKAB), a large Swedish mining company. In 2018 the mine...
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Abisko (category Lapland (Sweden))
Abisko (Swedish: [ˈɑ̌ːbɪskʊ]; Northern Sami: Ábeskovvu) is a village in Sápmi (Lapland), in northern Sweden, roughly 200 km north of the Arctic Circle...
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Storuman (category Lapland (Sweden))
seat of Storuman Municipality in Västerbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden with 2,207 inhabitants in 2010. It is situated by the Ume River, at...
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Åsele (category Lapland (Sweden))
Åsele (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈǒːsɛlɛ]) is a locality and the seat of Åsele Municipality in Västerbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden with 1,798...
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Laponian area (category Lapland (Sweden))
Laponian area is a large mountainous wildlife area in the Lapland province in northern Sweden, more precisely in Gällivare Municipality, Arjeplog Municipality...
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The University of Lapland (Finnish: Lapin yliopisto, Swedish: Lapplands universitet) is a public university in Rovaniemi, Finland. It was established in...
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Sarek National Park (redirect from Sarek, Sweden)
Ängsö Sarek National Park (Swedish: Sareks nationalpark) is a national park in Jokkmokk Municipality, Lapland in northern Sweden. Established in 1909, the...
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Laponia (historical province) (category Former provinces of Sweden)
Swedish Lapland and Finnish Lapland. Today, the Swedish part serves no administrative purpose. On the Finnish side, there was a Province of Lapland (much...
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Arjeplog (redirect from Arjeplog Lapland Court District)
(Swedish: [ˈǎrːjɛplʊɡ]; Pite Sami: Árjepluovve) is a locality and the seat of Arjeplog Municipality in Norrbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden with...
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Vilhelmina (category Lapland (Sweden))
seat of Vilhelmina Municipality in Västerbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden with 3,657 inhabitants in 2010. Vilhelmina has a subarctic climate...
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Vilhelmina Municipality, Sweden Vilhelmina Municipality, a municipality in Västerbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden Wilhelma, zoo and botanical...
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Abisko National Park (category Lapland (Sweden))
National Park (Swedish: Abisko nationalpark) is a National Park in Sweden, established in 1909. Abisko is situated in the Swedish province of Lapland near the...
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Käymäjärvi inscriptions (category Lapland (Sweden))
Inscriptions are near Lake Käymäjärvi, about 26 km northwest of Pajala in northern Sweden. The inscriptions were first reported in 1689 and were thought to be man...
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