Maantieteellinenä

Maantieteellinenä is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective maantieteellinen, meaning geographical. In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with nouns in number and case; maantieteellinen can take a range of endings. The form maantieteellinenä appears in non-nominative contexts, as part of oblique case forms, and is one of the many inflections used when describing nouns that are not in the nominative singular.

The adjective maantieteellinen itself is formed from maantiede (geography) plus the suffix -ellinen, and it denotes relation to geography or geographic characteristics. The term is widely used in Finnish academic and everyday language to describe geographic features, locations, data, or approaches. For example, maantieteellinen alue, maantieteelliset kartat, maantieteellinen tutkimus.

In practice, the most common form you will encounter is maantieteellinen in the nominative singular, or maantieteellisiä in the partitive plural; maantieteellinenä is less common but grammatically possible in certain constructions with specific nouns and cases.

Related words include maantiede (geography), maantieteellisyys (geographical nature or quality), and maantieteellisesti (geographically). The concept is central to disciplines such as geography, urban planning, environmental studies, and regional studies.