Finnmark Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
Norwegian county
About Finnmark
Finnmark covers an area about the size of countries likeSlovakia,SwitzerlandorDenmark. From west to east it is almost 1,000 km, comparable to the distance from London to Edinburgh. A large part of the county consists of theFinnmarksviddaplateau at about 300 to 500 metres above sea level. Finnmark's rugged coastline totals about 6800 km if islands are included (more than the coastline of Spain or Chile). The municipality of Kautokeino is about 10,000 square kilometres (4 times the size of Luxembourg) with a population of less than 3,000. Almost 10% of Kautokeino's area is lake surface. In total there are well over 100,000 lakes in Finnmark. In Eastern Finnmark the borders of Finland, Norway and Russia coincide, with no less than three different time zones within a few steps. Finnmark is the
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