Cap of the North

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.

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.