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Lapland
[ lap-land ]
noun
- a region in northern Norway, northern Sweden, northern Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of the northwestern Russian Federation in Europe: inhabited by the Sami.
Lapland
/ ˈlæpˌlænd /
noun
- 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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Example Sentences
M. Regnard says affirmatively, that the grey squirrels of Lapland are the same animals as the French squirrels.
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In the north of this peninsula is Lapland, and in the south, Finland.
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It is a long leap from Carnarvonshire to Lapland, where this story is told with no great variation.
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We of the temperate zone can hardly endure the heat of the tropics, and we shiver at the very thought of Lapland.
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Beds of white infusorial earth, resembling magnesia in appearance, known as Bergmehl, occur in Lapland and Finland.
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