Finnish Lapland

|----- |Capital || Rovaniemi |----- |Historical provinces || Lappi
Pohjanmaa |----- | Population (12/31/2005)


Density || 185.690
row province: 5th
row area: 10th
1.9 hab/km ²

|----- | Surface || 98.946 km ²
rang: 1e |}

The Finnish Lapland , Rabbit lääni in Finnish ( Lapplands län in Swedish), is located at the north of the Province of Oulu, it has a border with the Russia, the Sweden and the Norway.

It is at the same time one of the 6 Provinces of Finland and one of the 20 Régions of Finland.

Lapland is populated only of 3.6% of the Finnish population, it is the least populated province Finland (except Åland). It counts 185.700 inhabitants out of 98.946 km ² with less than 2 hab/km ².

It has as a capital Rovaniemi.

History

Lapland was separated from the Province of Oulu in 1936. It loses, after the Second world war, the area of Petsamo and part of the commune of Salla, yielded to the Soviet Union.

Communes

21 municipalities in all, including 4 cities (in fat). Inari is the most extended commune of Finland (17 333 km ², for 7040 inhabitants).

  1. Enontekiö
  2. Inari
  3. Kemi
  4. Kemijärvi
  5. Keminmaa
  6. Kittilä
  7. Kolari
  8. Muonio
  9. Pelkosenniemi
  10. Pello
  11. Posio
  12. Ranua
  13. Rovaniemi
  14. Salted
  15. Savukoski
  16. Simo
  17. Sodankylä
  18. Tervola
  19. Tornio
  20. Utsjoki
  21. Ylitornio

See too

Internal bond

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