Crossword clues for lapland
lapland
- Boy clutching map of North European region
- Scandinavian region
- Region of northern Finland
- Region of northern Europe
- Region near the Arctic Circle known for its reindeer
- Province in northern Finland
- Northern Finnish region that's home to the "Official Hometown of Santa Claus"
- It's largely within the Arctic Circle
- Father Christmas's home?
- Arctic Circle region
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Lapp, the Swedish name for this Finnic people (their name for themselves was Sabme), which probably originally was an insulting coinage (compare Middle High German lappe "simpleton"). In English traditionally the home of witches and wizards who had power to conjure winds and tempests. Related: Laplander.
Wikipedia
Lapland (; ; ) is the largest and northernmost region of Finland. The municipalities in the region cooperate in a Regional Council. Lapland borders the region of Northern Ostrobothnia in the south. It also borders the Gulf of Bothnia, Norrbotten County in Sweden, Finnmark County and Troms County in Norway, and Murmansk Oblast and the Republic of Karelia in Russia.
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The Lapporten mountain pass
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Abiskojåkka river and Torneträsk lake
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Lappland, often Anglicized as Lapland (, Latin: Lapponia), is a province in northernmost Sweden. It borders Jämtland, Ångermanland, Västerbotten, Norrbotten, Norway and Finland. About a quarter of Sweden's surface area is in Lappland.
Lappland originally extended eastward. However, in 1809 the Russian Empire annexed the eastern part of the Swedish realm, and created the Grand Duchy of Finland, which in effect split Lappland into a Swedish part and a Finnish part, both of which still exist today.
Lapland is an electoral district represented in the Finnish Eduskunta (parliament). It covers the administrative region of Lapland, with a population of 187,777 . Lapland currently elects seven members of the Eduskunta.
The constituency is largely rural, and the only cities in the area are rather small. Thus, the dominant party has traditionally been the rural Centre Party. The second party has been SKDL/ Left Alliance.
The other two major Finnish parties, Social Democrats and conservative National Coalition have usually got one of the scarce seats in constituency, National Coalition has usually allied with Christian Democrats, and in 2007 with Green League to secure their seat.
Lapland is the solo release by Craig Wedren. It was released October 25, 2005 on Team Love Records.
This album is the 4th release of Team Love Records.
The Province of Lapland was a province of Finland from 1938 to 2009.
It was established in 1938, when it was separated from the Province of Oulu. After the Second World War, the Petsamo municipality (former province) and part of the Salla municipality were ceded to the Soviet Union.
Usage examples of "lapland".
He was the only other floatplane pilot working in Lapland that summer.
Amaroq watched a large cloud of Lapland longspurs wheel up into the sky, then alight in the grasses.
Her black eyes were alert as several Lapland longspurs darted overhead.
Find out if there's more than reindeer and a few Lapps infancy dress in Finnish Lapland these days I' As if he heard the voice now, insistent in his ear, he woke himself from the narcosis of his rest and the coffee.
The ski-ing of the previous night, after dropping from the helicopter which had come skimming in under the radar net into Finnish Lapland, had taken its toll -not of his strength, but of his youth, it seemed.