Lapland

LC control no.	sh 85074668
Geographic heading	Lapland *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Geographic subdivision usage	Lapland
Variant(s)	Finnmark (Region) Finnmork Lapi Laplandiya Lappi Lappland Lappmarken Säämi (Region) Sää'mjânnam Sábme Saemie Sameland Sámieanan Sápmi
Found in	Columbia gaz. of the world, c1998 (Lapland, Finn. Lappi, Swed. Lappland, vast region of N Europe, largely within the Arctic Circle. It includes the Nor. provs. of Finnmark and Troms and part of Nordland; Swed. historic prov. of Lappland; Lapin prov., N Finland; and the Kola Peninsula of Russia) Merriam-Web. geog. dict., c1997 (Lapland or Norw. Lapland or Swed. Lappland or Finnish Lappi. A region extending over N Norway, N Sweden, N Finland, and the Kola Penin. in NW Russia in Europe; all above the Arctic Circle; total area ab. 150,000 sq. mi., with larger parts in Sweden and Russia) WaU catalog, Mar. 16, 2004 (ti: Turi's book of Lappland; Bryophytes of the Torneträsk area, northern Swedish Lappland; from the Bothnian Gulf through southern and central Lappland to the Norwegian fiords) Encyclopaedia Britannica online, viewed July 24, 2020 (Lapland, Sami Sápmi, Finnish Lapi or Lappi, Swedish Lappland, region of northern Europe largely within the Arctic Circle, stretching across northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland and into the Kola Peninsula of Russia. It is bounded by the Norwegian Sea on the west, the Barents Sea on the north, and the White Sea on the east. Lapland, the conventional name for the region, is derived from Lapp, the name Scandinavians ascribed to the Sami people, who have sparsely inhabited the region for several thousand years. Today the Sami consider Lapp to be a derogatory term. They call the region Sápmi. Lapland straddles several national borders and does not exist as any unified administrative entity) University of Michigan library guides, July 28, 2020 (Sami studies: The Sami (also spelled Saami, Sámi, Same) are an indigenous people living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and Finland, as well as the adjacent Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia. These areas are collectively known as Sápmi) GeoNet, July 28, 2020 (Lapland; region of Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden; names: Lapland (conv.), Lappland, Lappi, Laplandiya, Finnmark, Finnmork, Lappmarken, Säämi, Sää'mjânnam, Sábme, Saemie, Sameland, Sámieanan, Sápmi; 68° 00ʹ 00ʺ N, 025° 00ʹ 00ʺ E)