Talk:Lapland (Finland)

Article name questioned
The article name is unfortunately NOT unambiguous, since Lapland, a province in Sweden, may also be called Lapland Province (the article is named "Swedish Lapland") and is in fact larger than Finnish Lapland (which redirects here).

This article should better be renamed Lapland Province, Finland.

The article name may also be confused with the historical province of Lapland in Finland (see Laponia). The corresponding area in Sweden is still regarded as a province, and it is well-defined and well-known, albeit administratively subdivided since 1810 (Norrbotten County and Västerbotten County). Torsten22 23:13, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

It seems very strange to me that there is no mention of Father Christmas in this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.26.230 (talk) 23:56, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Northern Sámi translation.
In the article Lapland is translated as "Lappi" in Sámi, but this must be wrong, since I recently crossed the border between Lapland and Finnmark, ando n the roadsign, it was translated to "Sápmi", which makes alot more sense. Lapland literally means Samiland, and Sápmi is the sámi word for Samiland, but Lappi is just the same as the finnish name.

--77.222.163.104 (talk) 18:08, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

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name of the region
Is it correct to refer to finnish Lapland as Sapmi constantly during the article? First of all Sapmi the traditional areas of the Sami people includes areas also from Norway, Sweden and Russia and NOT the entire finnish Lapland. Secondly most inhabitants of finnish Lapland have finnish as mothertongue. One could claim that indigenous people have in a sense more rights to the land. In this area there is a history of oppression of the finnish language too. School students in Sweden and Norway were banned from speaking finnish just some decades ago. Belittling finnish culture has long traditions in germanic countries and has played a great role in the birth of nazism. So, I do feel that this article is possibly yet another example of nazi attitudes appearing in wikipedia. (finnish wikipedia has lots of those) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.146.204.223 (talk) 16:04, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Using Sápmi name in the article is bad form
It makes absolutely no sense to force the article to use Sápmi name of the area throughout. Sure, name of the area is Sápmi in Sami language, but that's just it. In English (which is the language of this Wiki) it is not called Sápmi, it's called Lapland. This cannot be disputed.

It's like if the English Wikipedia's article about Finland forced usage of name "Suomi" throughout instead of "Finland". This analogy is actually perfect, and if it was true, situation would be totally nonsensical.

I strongly think article should use the name Lapland. Other views? Hyperionfin (talk) 22:13, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

About the name of Lapland
Someone has done impressice work and changed the name Lapland to Sapmi in whole article. Would like to remind: Sami is not even an offical language in the region of Laplanand name Sapmi is not used in any other languages than Sami languages, so there is no reason to use ”Sapmi” in any Wikipedia expect of the Sami Wikipedia.

The offical English name of the region of Lapland is - Lapland, not Sapmi or anything else (if someone is still suspicious, feel free to check it from the Government of Finland: https://vnk.fi/documents/10616/3457861/Suomen+hallintorakenteeseen+ja+maakuntauudistukseen+liittyviä+termejä+sekä+maakuntien+ja+kuntien+nimet+fi-sv-en-(ru) ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.76.82.253 (talk) 20:22, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Tourism Table
If someone knows can they update the tourism table to show whether the numbers refer to people, amounts of money, something else? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.36.214.215 (talk) 18:38, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

"Winter Wonderland (Finland)" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Winter Wonderland (Finland). The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 January 7 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. signed,Rosguill talk 17:57, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

The name in Sámi is Lappi
The name of this region of Finland in Northern Sámi is "Lappi", not Sápmi. Sápmi refers to a wider area across northern Fennoscandia. The name of the region of Finland is Lappi. You can clearly see this if you check any Lappi administrative websites in Sámi, for example: https://www.lapinliitto.fi/sme/dappe-gavnnat-diedu-lappi-lihtus-davvisamegillii/. I'd change it myself but I'll just be pissed if I see someone reversing it since I know I'm correct. But whoever sees this, feel free to. Please. --Vilutar (talk) 19:40, 31 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Ah whatever I did it myself. If a source is required, well it's right there in my previous message. --Vilutar (talk) 06:03, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

First history image
I think it's inappropriate to use a Sámi man with Wehrmacht soldiers as the first image in a history of the region, when there will be so many more that could be used. The overall negative connotations of using a picture of an ethnicity with so much history in one of their historical regions alongside WW2 Wehrmacht soldiers as the primary image is one I feel does not add positive value to the article and its relevance as the primary historical image is questionable. I hope that it can thus be changed to something more represenative of the historical section's opening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EmilePersaud 16:53, 29 August 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by EmilePersaud (talk • contribs)


 * I've removed this photo as the photo does not support the adjacent text in any way, it is not contextualised within the article nor does it provide any additional value to the page. Whatever the intention was of the user who added this photo is unclear at best and, given their editing history and history of being blocked for plagiarism and copyright infringement, I don't see a reason to give them the benefit of the doubt.
 * Another historical photo that is actually relevant to the contents of this article would be welcome. Somewhatparanoid (talk) 11:03, 26 February 2024 (UTC)