Area 59,036 km² | ||
 | ||
Laponia (Finnish: Lappi) is a historical Finnish Province in the north of Finland. The present-day Finnish region, modern province of Lapland contains also an Ostrobothnian area outside of the historical Laponia. The historical province formed a part of a larger Swedish historical province of Laponia before Finland was ceded to Russia in 1809.
References
Laponia (historical province of Finland) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA