Lapland

American  

[lap-land] / ˈlæpˌlænd /

noun

1. 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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Lapland British  

/ ˈlæpˌlænd /

noun

1. Also called (informal): Land of the Midnight Sun.  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

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Sensitive Note

See Lapp.

Example Sentences

Back in my room at Lapland Hotel I turn on the private sauna.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

She returns to the kitchen and I order her Lapland Delicacies platter, a kind of northern greatest hits presented on a slice of tree.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

But Trump's desire to acquire strategically-located Greenland has now raised "more and more" suspicions about the deal, Sanna Kopra, an Arctic geopolitics and security professor at the University of Lapland, told AFP.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

Thousands of tourists have been stranded in Finland's Lapland as a severe cold spell has grounded flights out of one of its airports.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2026

The carriages rolled past Sitting Bull’s Cabin, the Lapland Village, the compound of the allegedly cannibalistic Dahomans, and, directly opposite, the California Ostrich Farm, redolent of simmering butter and eggs.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson