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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)

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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

An officer with the Finnmark local police declined to give the arrested man's identity.

From Reuters • Sep. 23, 2023

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

I.  It is said that in the days of old the northern part of Finnmark was called J�tunheimar, and that there was a country called Ymisland to the south between it and Halogaland.

From Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Kershaw, Nora