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Finnmark

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/ ˈfɪnˌmɑːk /

noun

  1. a county of N Norway: the largest, northernmost, and least populated county; mostly a barren plateau. Capital: Vadsø. Pop: 73 210 (2004 est). Area: 48 649 sq km (18 779 sq miles)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Last week, Marius Borg Høiby's sister, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, made a much-publicised visit to the Finnmark area of northern Norway.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026

In 2019, Norway’s communications authority Nkom registered six GPS failures in Eastern Finnmark, in the country’s north bordering Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

The man told the Indre and Oestre Finnmark District Court that he had been in Norway since August and had flown drones throughout the country, VG said.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

At Klaw, a hot new restaurant in Miami, managing partner George Atterbury has worked with Troika Seafood, a Norwegian seafood wholesaler, to bring in live red king crab from Finnmark County, Norway’s northernmost county.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2022

Helgi and his brother Thorstein went on a cruise to Finnmark, or Lapland.

From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

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