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Where does Scandinavia end and Lapland begin? Has it been delineated and demarcated or is it just arbitrary?

April 26, 2017countries delineated Denmark Europe European lapland scandinavia

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Where does Scandinavia end and Lapland begin? Has it been delineated and demarcated or is it just arbitrary?

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Lapland is in Scandinavia … even though the Laps aren’t exactly Scandinavians … but then, niether are the Finns: both peoples came out of northern Asia (kind of like white mongols) as opposed to the Nordic origins of Swedes, Norwegians and Danes.