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Lapland, also known by its Swedish name Lappland (Northern Sami: Sápmi, Finnish: Lappi, Meänkieli: Lappi Latin: Lapponia), is a province in northernmost Sweden. It borders the Swedish provinces of Jämtland, Ångermanland, Västerbotten, and Norrbotten, as well as Norway and Finland. Nearly a quarter of Sweden's land area is in Lappland.
Laponia (Swedish: Lappland) was a historical Swedish province, or landscape, in the north of Sweden. It evolved from Lappmarken. In 1809, Sweden ceded the eastern part, along with Finland, to the Russian Empire, which in effect created a Swedish Lapland and Finnish Lapland.
The Laponian area is a large mountainous wildlife area in the Lapland province in northern Sweden, more precisely in Gällivare Municipality, Arjeplog Municipality and Jokkmokk Municipality. The name comes from the Latin name for Lapland.
From the 19th century Norwegian and Swedish authorities started to regard the Sámi as a "backward" and "primitive" people in need of being "civilized", imposing the Scandinavian languages as the only valid languages of the kingdoms and effectively banning Sámi language and culture in many contexts, particularly schools.
Lapland, a geographic region in Northern Fennoscandia Lapland (Sweden) Lapland (Finland) Lappmarken, a Swedish name for the region, not restricted to the area specifically inhabited by the Sami people; Lappland (nature reserve) in Västmanland County, Sweden
The biggest towns in Lapland are Rovaniemi (the regional capital), Tornio, and Kemi. In 2011, Lapland had a population of 183,320 of whom 177,950 spoke Finnish, 1,526 spoke Sami, 387 spoke Swedish and 3,467 spoke some other languages as their mother tongue. [37] Of the Sami languages, Northern Sami, Inari Sami and Skolt Sami are spoken in the ...
The present-day Finnish region, modern province of Lapland contains also an Ostrobothnian area called Peräpohjola outside of the historical Laponia. The historical province formed a part of a larger Swedish historical province of Laponia before Finland was ceded to Russia in September 1809.
Lapland (Sweden) (Lappland), a Swedish historical province; Russian Lapland, a former name and a sporadic marketing term for Murmansk Oblast. Laplandiya (lit. ' Lapland '), a rural locality (a railway station) in Murmansk Oblast; Lapland, Indiana, a town in the United States; Lapland, Kansas, an unincorporated community in the United States