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