Cap of the North
The Cap of the North (Nordkalotten in
Sámi people
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The region contains over 30% of the total area of the three countries, but it houses less than 5% of their population.[1]
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.[1]
Sámi historian Per Guttorm Kvenangen has criticized the term Nordkalotten for displacing the overlapping term Sápmi and hiding the "Sámi character" of northern Fennoscandia.[2]
References
- ^ a b "Nordkalotten", Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian Bokmål), 2021-01-30, retrieved 2022-03-31
- ISBN 9177160525