Etymology. Sápmi (and corresponding terms in other Sami languages) refers to both the Sami land and the Sami people. The word "Sámi" is the accusative-genitive form of the noun "Sápmi"—making the name's (Sámi olbmot) meaning "people of Sápmi".The origin of the word is speculated to be related to the Baltic word *žēmē, meaning "land". Also "Häme", the Finnish …

Northern America is the northernmost subregion of North America.The boundaries may be drawn slightly differently. In one definition, it lies directly north of Middle America (including the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico). Northern America's land frontier with the rest of North America then coincides with the Mexico–United States border. ...

Gilead or Gilad (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l i ə d /; Hebrew: גִּלְעָד Gīləʿāḏ, Arabic: جلعاد, Ǧalʻād, Jalaad) is the ancient, historic, biblical name of the mountainous northern part of the region of Transjordan. The region is bounded in the west by the Jordan River, in the north by the deep ravine of the river Yarmouk and the region of Bashan, and in the southwest by what were known ...

The Arctic Circle is roughly 16,000 km (9,900 mi) in circumference. The area north of the Circle is about 20,000,000 km 2 (7,700,000 sq mi) and covers roughly 4% of Earth's surface.. The Arctic Circle passes through the Arctic Ocean, the Scandinavian Peninsula, North Asia, Northern America, and Greenland.The land within the Arctic Circle is divided among eight countries: …

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The area traditionally inhabited by the Sámi people is known in Northern Sámi as Sápmi, and typically includes the northern parts of Fennoscandia.Previously, the Sámi have probably inhabited areas further south in Fennoscandia. A few Stone Age cultures in the area had been speculated, especially in the 18th and early 19th centuries, to be associated with the ancestors …

La Lapponia (Sápmi in sami) è la regione geografico-culturale abitata dalla popolazione Sami.Si trova nell'Europa del Nord, distribuita nelle regioni settentrionali di Norvegia, Svezia, Finlandia e della penisola di Kola, in Russia.Confina a nord con il Mare di Barents, ad ovest con il Mare di Norvegia e a est con il Mar Bianco.

Sápmi sträcker sig över hela Nordkalotten samt en stor del av Skandinaviska halvön. Området omfattar delar av Sverige, Norge, Finland och Kolahalvön i Ryssland. Området är totalt ungefär 388 350 km² stort och har en befolkning på totalt 2 317 159 invånare.

Sámi languages (/ ˈ s ɑː m i / SAH-mee), in English also rendered as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sámi people in Northern Europe (in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden, and extreme northwestern Russia).There are, depending on the nature and terms of division, ten or more Sami languages. Several spellings have been used for the Sámi …

The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages.The language group is also referred to as the Nordic languages, a direct translation of the most common term used among Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, …