Finnmark
Finnmark is Norway's northernmost county, well within the Arctic circle. It is the largest county in Norway by area but the smallest by number of inhabitants. Finnmark is the northernmost part of mainland Europe, as well as the easternmost part of Norway.
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Finnmark
- Type: county of Norway with 73,100 residents
- Description: Norwegian county
- Also known as: “Finmark”, “Finnmarku”, “Ruija”, “Ruijan lääni”, and “фюльке Фіннмарк”
- Neighbors: Finnish Lapland, Murmansk Oblast, and Troms
- Category: former county of Norway
- Location: Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude of center
70.0815° or 70° 4′ 53″ north
Longitude of center
29.7358° or 29° 44′ 9″ east
Population
73,100
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Finnmark” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Finnmark”
- Albanian: “Finnmark”
- Amharic: “ፊንማርክ”
- Arabic: “فينمارك”
- Aragonese: “Finnmark”
- Armenian: “Ֆինմարք”
- Asturian: “Finnmark”
- Azerbaijani: “Finnmark”
- Basque: “Finnmark”
- Belarusian: “Фінмарк”
- Bengali: “ফিনমার্ক”
- Bishnupriya: “ফিনমার্ক”
- Bosnian: “Finnmark”
- Breton: “Finnmark”
- Bulgarian: “Финмарк”
- Catalan: “Finnmark”
- Cebuano: “Finnmark Fylke”
- Central Kurdish: “فینمارک”
- Chinese: “芬马克郡”
- Cornish: “Finnmark”
- Croatian: “Finnmark”
- Czech: “Finnmark”
- Danish: “Finnmark Fylke”
- Danish: “Finnmark”
- Dutch: “Finnmark”
- Esperanto: “Finnmark”
- Esperanto: “Finnmarko”
- Estonian: “Finnmargi maakond”
- Estonian: “Finnmark”
- Faroese: “Finnmark fylke”
- Faroese: “Finnmark fylki”
- Finnish: “Finnmarkin lääni”
- French: “Comté de Finnmark”
- French: “Finnmark”
- Georgian: “ფინმარკი”
- German: “Finnmark”
- Greek: “Φίνμαρκ”
- Hausa: “Finnmark”
- Hebrew: “פינמרק”
- Hindi: “फ़िनमार्क”
- Hungarian: “Finnmark megye”
- Icelandic: “Finnmörk”
- Inari Sami: “Finnmark lääni”
- Indonesian: “Finnmark”
- Italian: “Finnmark”
- Japanese: “フィンマルク県”
- Javanese: “Finnmark”
- Kazakh: “Финмарк”
- Kirghiz: “Финмарк”
- Korean: “핀마르크주”
- Ladin: “Finnmark”
- Latin: “Finmarchia”
- Latvian: “Finnmarka”
- Limburgan: “Finnmark”
- Lithuanian: “Finmarkas”
- Low German: “Amt Finnmark”
- Luxembourgish: “Finnmark”
- Macedonian: “Финмарк”
- Malay: “Finnmark”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Finnmark”
- Nauru: “Finnmark”
- Northern Sami: “Finnmárkku fylka”
- Northern Sami: “Finnmárku”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Finnmark”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Finnmark fylke”
- Norwegian: “Finnmark”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Finnmark”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Finnamearc”
- Oromo: “Finnmark”
- Ossetian: “Финнмарк”
- Panjabi: “ਫਿਨਮਾਰਕ”
- Persian: “فینمارک”
- Polish: “Finnmark”
- Portuguese: “Finnmark”
- Pushto: “فینمارک”
- Romanian: “Finnmark”
- Russian: “Финнмарк”
- Samogitian: “Fėnmarks”
- Scots: “Finnmark”
- Serbian: “Финмарк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Finnmark”
- Slovak: “Finnmark”
- Slovenian: “Finnmark”
- Somali: “Finnmark”
- South Azerbaijani: “فینمارک”
- Spanish: “Finnmark”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Finnmark”
- Swahili: “Finnmark”
- Swedish: “Finnmark fylke”
- Swedish: “Finnmark”
- Tajik: “Финмарк”
- Tatar: “Финнмарк”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลฟินมาร์ก”
- Turkish: “Finnmark”
- Ukrainian: “Фіннмарк”
- Urdu: “فنمارک”
- Uzbek: “Finnmark”
- Vietnamese: “Finnmark”
- Vlaams: “Finnmark”
- Waray (Philippines): “Finnmark”
- Welsh: “Finnmark”
- Western Frisian: “Finnmark”
- Western Panjabi: “فنمارک”
- Wu Chinese: “芬马克”
- Wu Chinese: “芬马克郡”
- Yue Chinese: “芬馬克”
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