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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Swedish Lapland for Lappland and West Bothnia for Västerbotten are common in English literature. Swedes writing in English have long used the Swedish...
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Laponia (historical province) (category Articles containing Swedish-language text)
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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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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Sápmi (redirect from Lapland (region))
repeatedly. Giron (Kiruna) is the seat of the Swedish Sami Parliament and the largest urban settlement in Swedish Lapland. Guovdageaidnu (Kautokeino): About 90%...
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Norrbotten County (redirect from Norrbotten County, Lapland)
northern part, on the Swedish side. Most people in Norrbotten County still refer to the entire county, including the areas in Swedish Lapland, when they say...
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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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There are a number of national parks within Lapland Province in Finland, as well as in Swedish Lapland in the western parts of Västerbotten County and...
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(Lappland), a Swedish historical province Russian Lapland, a former name and a sporadic marketing term for Murmansk Oblast Laplandiya (lit. 'Lapland'), a rural...
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Gällivare Lapland Court District (Swedish: Gällivare lappmarks tingslag) was a district of Lapland in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided...
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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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innovation. Spaceport Sweden is built by the Swedish Space Corporation. Located in Kiruna, in Swedish Lapland, Spaceport Sweden is being developed at...
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Norrbotten (category Pages with Swedish IPA)
borders south to Västerbotten, west to Swedish Lapland, and east to Finland. The traditional provinces of Sweden serve no administrative or political purposes...
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Southern Lapland (Finnish: Peräpohjola or Peräpohja; Swedish: Nordbotten or Överbotten; lit. 'Rear Bothnia') was the northernmost part of the historical...
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The Province of Lapland (Finnish: Lapin lääni, Swedish: Lapplands län) was a province of Finland from 1938 to 2009. It was established in 1938, when it...
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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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Ice hotel (section IGLOOTEL Lapland)
Retrieved 20 October 2014. "IGLOOTEL". Swedish Lapland Visitors Board. Retrieved 8 October 2018. "IGLOOTEL Lapland". FlyCar Group. Retrieved 8 October 2018...
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"Nu får skånska flaggan användas officiellt" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. 28 November 2017. Nu får Roslagen en egen flagga (Swedish), 2020-07-08....
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Ångermanland (category CS1 Swedish-language sources (sv))
northern part of Sweden. It is bordered (clockwise from the north) by Swedish Lapland, Västerbotten, the Gulf of Bothnia, Medelpad and Jämtland. The name...
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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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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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Kebnekaise (category Articles with Swedish-language sources (sv))
peak at 2,096.8 metres (6,879 ft) the highest. Kebnekaise lies in Swedish Lapland, about 150 kilometres (93 mi) north of the Arctic Circle and west of...
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Martin Luther, Lars Levi Laestadius, and the elders of this church in Swedish Lapland in this era (known as the Church of Firstborn). The Old Apostolic Lutheran...
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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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Pajala (category CS1 Swedish-language sources (sv))
is located in Swedish Lapland. Pajala is in the Torne Valley and was dominated by people speaking a Finnish dialect until Eastern Sweden (Finland) got...
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of Visby The "High Coast" of Ångermanland Laponian area, Swedish Lapland, in northern Sweden The mining area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun The...
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Fell (category CS1 Swedish-language sources (sv))
[citation needed] In Finnish, the mountains characteristic of the region of Lapland are called tunturi (plural: tunturit), i.e. "fell". A tunturi is a hill...
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Scandinavia (category Articles containing Swedish-language text)
Norway. Meänkieli and Kven are Finnish dialects spoken in Swedish Lapland and Norwegian Lapland. The Sámi languages are indigenous minority languages in...
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The Lapland Ranger Regiment (Swedish: Lapplands jägarregemente), designations I 22, I 22/Fo 66 and I 22/GJ 66, was a Swedish Army light infantry regiment...
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