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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.
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 ...
Ylläs, or Yllästunturi in Finnish, is a 718-metre (2,356 ft) high fell in the municipality of Kolari in Lapland Province of Finland. There are two villages near Ylläs: Äkäslompolo on the north side and Ylläsjärvi in the south. They are connected by an 11 km road, around the side of the fell.
Northern Lapland is a subdivision of Finnish Lapland and one of the sub-regions of Finland since 2009. It is the largest and most sparsely populated sub-region in ...
Rovaniemi (/ ˈ r oʊ v ə n i. ə m i / ROH-və-nee-ə-mee, [6] Finnish: [ˈroʋɑˌnie̯mi] ⓘ; Northern Sami: Roavvenjárga [ˈroɑ̯vveˌɲaːrːka]; Inari Sami: Ruávinjargâ; Skolt Sami: Ruäʹvnjargg) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Lapland.
It is located in northern Finland north of the Arctic Circle within the Lapland region. The municipality has a population of 6,833 (31 December 2024) [2] and covers an area of 8,262.97 square kilometres (3,190.35 sq mi) of which 168.71 km 2 (65.14 sq mi) is water. [1] The population density is 0.84 inhabitants per square kilometre (2.2/sq mi).
The 21 municipalities of the Lapland Region (Finnish: Lappi; Northern Sami: Sápmi; Swedish: Lappland) in Finland are divided on six sub-regions:
Kilpisjärvi Lake. Enontekiö is located in the region of Lapland in the outermost northwest tip of Finland.The salient between the Swedish and Norwegian borders, which is occupied by the municipality of Enontekiö, is called Käsivarsi (Finnish for "arm"), because before World War II, Finland's borders had the shape of a woman's figure (Suomi-neito) and the area looked like her raised right arm.