Editing March (territory) (section)

==Scandinavia==
[[Denmark]] means "the march of the [[Danish people|Danes]]".

In [[Old Norse language|Norse]], "mark" meant "borderlands" and "forest"; in present-day Norwegian and Swedish it has acquired the meaning "ground", while in Danish it has come to mean "field" or "grassland".

[[Markland]] was the Norse name of an area in North America discovered by Norwegian [[Viking]]s. 

The forests surrounding Norwegian cities are called "Marka"&nbsp;– the marches. For example, the [[Marka, Oslo|forests surrounding Oslo]] are called [[Nordmarka]], [[Østmarka]] and [[Vestmarka]]&nbsp;– i.e. the northern, eastern and western marches.

In Norway, there are – or have been – the counties:

* [[Finnmark]], "the borderlands of the [[Sámi peoples|Sámi]]" (known to the [[Norsemen|Norse]] as ''[[Finn (ethnonym)|Finn]]s'')
* [[Hedmark]], "the borderlands of [[heath (habitat)|heath]]"
* [[Telemark]], "the borderlands of the [[Thelir|Þela tribe]]"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.slekt.org/books/aars/1918tele_gren.htm |title=Navnet Telemark og Grenland |trans-title=The name Telemark and Grenland |author=Alexander Bugge |date=1918}}</ref>

In Finland, ''mark'' occurs in the following placenames in [[Satakunta]]:
* [[Noormarkku]] (Swedish: Norrmark), a former municipality of Finland
* [[Pomarkku]] (Swedish: Påmark), a municipality of Finland
* {{ill|Söörmarkku|fi}} (Swedish: Södermark), a village in Noormarkku, Finland

In [[Värmland]] in [[Sweden]], [[Nordmark Hundred]] was the frontier area near the border to Norway. Almost all of it is now a part of [[Årjäng Municipality]]. In the Middle Ages the area was called ''Nordmarkerna'' and was a part of [[Dalsland]] and not of Värmland.