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(Norrland isn't a province. It's one of three regions of Sweden, roughly the two northern thirds of the country by area, containing nine of the twenty-five trad
by rags2riches 5y ago
(Norrland isn't a province. It's one of three regions of Sweden, roughly the two northern thirds of the country by area, containing nine of the twenty-five traditional provinces.)
- cpach 5y agoGood point! I edited my comment.
- gus_massa 5y agoIt may be also relevant that (from Wikipedia) it only has 1.2M /10.3M = 12% of the population of Sweden.
- notJim 5y agoWay more than Montana, which has only .3% of the US population, though Norrland and Montana are similar in absolute numbers.
- eCa 5y agoArea-wise Norrland is roughly 60% of Sweden’s total area[1], while Montana is less than 4% of the US total area. I think that makes the comparison more fair. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Sweden
- btilly 5y agoThey are also similar in population density. Norrland has 8.6 people per square mile while Montana has 7 per square mile.
- nodesocket 5y agoInteresting. I’ve been to Stockholm a few times extended and definitely heard of Lapland, but not Norland.
- Lapland 5y agoLappland is a part of Norrland, but both of these terms are used in a historical sense as cultural/geographical regions, and nowadays replaced by counties
- nodesocket 5y agoUsername checks out. :-)
- kzrdude 5y agoLapland is a historical province in Sweden. You'll also find a northernmost part of Finland with the same name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland One area around three national parts (Padjelanta, Sarek, Stora sjöfallet) is also called Laponia. But the political division of Sweden around that area - that's Norbottens län, so that's the subdivision that people care most about in their day-to-day life.
- cuspycode 5y agoFinland was historically a part of Sweden for about 600 years, and the northernmost part was called Lapland. Nowadays that part is split into Swedish Lapland and Finnish Lapland. Norrland (literally "northern land") is the name for the part of Sweden that is north of approximately 61 degrees northern latitude, so it includes Swedish Lapland but also a lot more.
- alkonaut 5y agoNorr means ”north”. Norrland is the Northern 2/3 of the country. It’s not formally defined but more like the “Midwest” and similar. Lapland is a part of Norrland.
- GaylordTuring 5y agoThis is further complicated by the fact that Sweden is divided into 21 administrative units (the twenty-five traditional provinces are non-administrative units), in Swedish called "regioner" (formerly "landsting"), where five of these are situated in Norrland.