maanlaajuista

Maanlaajuista is a Finnish adjective meaning land-scale or land-wide, used to describe phenomena that span a large geographic area on the earth’s surface. It is typically applied to national or continental levels and is contrasted with paikallinen (local) and alueellinen (regional) in discussions of scope and scale. The term emphasizes breadth across the land rather than around water bodies, oceans, or urban centers.

Grammar and usage: The base form is maanlaajuinen. When used with a noun in the partitive case, the form maanlaajuista appears, for example maanlaajuista tutkimusta (land-scale research) or maanlaajuista ohjelmaa (a land-scale program). It occurs in scientific, policy, and economic texts to indicate that coverage, impact, or data extend across a wide land area rather than a small locale.

Examples of usage: A maanlaajuinen ympäristövaikutusten arviointi describes an environmental impact assessment covering an entire country or large land area. Maanlaajuista dataa may refer to data collected across the whole land area under study, enabling cross-region comparisons. In some contexts, Finnish speakers may choose valtakunnallinen or maailmanlaajuinen to express nationwide or worldwide scope, respectively, depending on the desired emphasis.

Notes: Maanlaajuista conveys geographic breadth on the land and is most common in technical, academic, and policy writing. While it can overlap with national-scale concepts, exact scope is determined by context and accompanying nouns.

See also: valtakunnallinen (national-scale), maailmanlaajuinen (worldwide-scale), maantiede (geography).