Lapland (Finland)

**Lapland** (; ; ) is the lairgest an northmaist o the regions o Finland. The municipalities in the province cooperate in a Regional Council. It borders the Region o North Ostrobothnie in the sooth. It an aa borders tae the Gulf o Bothnie, Norrbotten County in Swaden, Finnmark Coonty an Troms Coonty in Norawa an tae Murmansk Oblast in Roushie. In some pairts o the warld, pairticularly Britain, Ireland an Finland itsel, it is considered the traditional hame o Father Christmas (Joulupukki).

## Historical provinces
:*For history, geography an cultur see: [[Laponie (historical province)|Laponie]], [[Ostrobothnie (historical province)|Österbotten]] an [[Västerbotten]]*

Lapland wis separatit frae Oulu Province in 1936. Efter the Seicont Warld War, the Petsamo an Salla auries wur cedit tae the Soviet Union. Unner the ryalist constitution o Finland durin the first hauf o 1918, Lapland wis tae become a Grand Principality an pairt o the inheritance o the proposed keeng o Finland.

Lapland wis ane o the provinces o Finland, til the provinces wur abolished on Januar 1, 2010.

## Population

Lapland is the hame o aboot 3.6% o Finland's population, an is bi far the least densely populatit aurie in the kintra. The biggest touns in Lapland are Rovaniemi (the regional caipital), Kemi, an Tornio. In 2009 Lapland haed a population o 183,748 o whom 179,070 spoke Finnish, 1,473 spoke Sami, 338 spoke Swadish an 2,867 spoke some ither leids as their mither leid. O the Sami leids Northren Sami, Inari Sami an Skolt Sami are spoken in the region.

## Admeenistration
The State Provincial Office wis a joint regional authority o seiven different meenistries. It promotit naitional an regional objectives o the State central admeenistration.

### Regional Cooncil
The 21 municipalities o Lapland are organised intae a single Region, whaur they cooperate in the Lapland Regional Cooncil, *Lapin liitto* or *Lapplands förbund*.

### Sami Domicile Aurie
The northmaist municipalities o Lapland whaur the Sami fowk are the maist numerous, form the Sami Domicile Aurie. Sami organization exists in parallel wi the provincial ane.

### Municipalities

## Heraldry
The *Regional Cooncil o Lapland* uises the Finnish variation o the coat o airms for Laponie. The coat o airms for the *Province o Lapland* wis composed oot o the coats o airms o Laponie an Ostrobothnia.

## Lapland impact on Finnish numismatics
Most o the gowd uised tae mint Finnish gowd coins comes frae Lapland.  Lapland itsel haes been the main motif for a recent commemorative coin, the Finish First Finnish gowd euro commemorative coin, mintit in 2002. On the reverse side, the midnicht sun abuin a lake in Lapland can be observed.

## Notes

## See an aa
*Lappmarken
*Lääni
*Sami fowk
*Sápmi (aurie)

## Freemit airtins

*Lapland Regional Cooncil – Offeecial steid
*Lapland State Provincial Office  – Offeecial steid
*Lapland Finland Portal  – The Offeecial Travel Guide o Finnish Lapland
*Lapland Club
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*Lapland Travel Guide  – Information aboot holidays in Lapland
*Kemi-Tornio University o Applee'd Sciences – video portal  – Videos aboot Lapland experiences an lifestyle.
*Levi-Lapland –  Information on Lapland, the ski resorts an the Lapland Super Pass.
*Travel 2 Lapland  – Huge leet o travel information: map, blogs, forums, tourist attractions, tourism services etc.