North Karelia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A county and region in northern Karelia, in southeast Finland. (Since 2022, the English term officially prescribed as the name for the Finnish administrative unit long known as a “region” was changed to be called a “county”, although reference to counties as regions is still common. See Counties of Finland.)

Pronunciation

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Word forms

North Karelia

Etymology

From Finnish Pohjois-Karjala.

Related words

Derived words

North Karelian
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