Lapland
a region in northern Norway, northern Sweden, northern Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of the northwestern Russian Federation in Europe: inhabited by the Sami.
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How to use Lapland in a sentence
M. Regnard says affirmatively, that the grey squirrels of Lapland are the same animals as the French squirrels.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonIn the north of this peninsula is Lapland, and in the south, Finland.
Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) | AnonymousIt is a long leap from Carnarvonshire to Lapland, where this story is told with no great variation.
The Science of Fairy Tales | Edwin Sidney HartlandWe of the temperate zone can hardly endure the heat of the tropics, and we shiver at the very thought of Lapland.
The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Joshua | William Garden BlaikieBeds of white infusorial earth, resembling magnesia in appearance, known as Bergmehl, occur in Lapland and Finland.
British Dictionary definitions for Lapland
/ (ˈlæpˌlænd) /
an extensive region of N Europe, mainly within the Arctic Circle: consists of the N parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of the extreme NW of Russia: Also called (informal): Land of the Midnight Sun
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