رأس الشمال

منطقة نوردكالوتن

رأس الشمال ( إنگليزية: Cap of the North؛ Nordkalotten بالنرويجية والسويدية أو Pohjoiskalotti بالفنلندية) هي المناطق في النرويج والسويد و فنلندا الواقعة شمال الدائرة القطبية. It usuallyقالب:Says who? 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.

The Kola Peninsula was considered a part of this region until 1917, but this was changedقالب:Says who? after the Russian Revolution, with the new Soviet Union closing their borders.

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

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