Cap of the North

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The area of Nordkalotten

The Cap of the North, also known as the North Calotte, [1] (Nordkalotten in Norwegian and Swedish, or Pohjoiskalotti in Finnish) is the regions of Norway, Sweden, and Finland located north of the Arctic Circle. It usually[ according to whom? ] consists of the counties Finnmark, Nordland and Troms in Norway, Norrbotten in Sweden, and Lapland in Finland. The region has a subarctic climate and is home to the majority of the Sámi people.

The region contains over 30% of the total area of the three countries, but it houses less than 5% of their population. [2]

The Kola Peninsula was considered a part of this region until 1917, but this was changed[ according to whom? ] after the Russian Revolution, with the new Soviet Union closing their borders. [2]

Sámi historian Per Guttorm Kvenangen has criticized the term Nordkalotten for displacing the overlapping term Sápmi and hiding the "Sámi character" of northern Fennoscandia. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "In English". Nordkalottens granstjanst (in Swedish). Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  2. 1 2 "Nordkalotten", Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian Bokmål), 2021-01-30, retrieved 2022-03-31
  3. ↑ Kvenangen, P. G. (1996), Samernas historia[History of the Sámi] (in Swedish), Jokkmokk, Sweden: Sameskolstyrelsen, p. 11, ISBN   9177160525

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