landomfattende

Landomfattende is a Scandinavian adjective used in Norwegian and Danish to describe something that covers the entire country or has nationwide reach. The term is formed from land, meaning country, and omfattende, meaning extensive or comprehensive. In usage, it typically modifies a noun to express geographic scope rather than administrative level.

In Norwegian, landomfattende is usually placed before the noun it describes, for example: landomfattende tiltak (nationwide measures), landomfattende undersøkelse (nationwide survey). It can also appear in predicative constructions in formal contexts, such as Tiltaket er landomfattende. Danish usage mirrors this pattern, with examples like landomfattende projekter or landomfattende undersøgelser.

Semantically, landomfattende emphasizes geographic coverage across the whole nation. It is closely related to but distinct from synonyms such as nasjonal and nasjonalt, where nasjonal often carries political or legal connotations, while landomfattende stresses the physical breadth of the coverage. The term is common in public administration, statistics, journalism, and policy discourse, where specifying the scale of programs, surveys, or regulations is important.

Etymology reflects its components: land (country) and omfattende (comprehensive). The combination conveys the sense of an initiative or phenomenon that extends across all parts of the country, rather than being confined to a region or municipality.

See also: nationwide, national, landdækkende (Danish analogue in some contexts).