رأس الشمال
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.[1]
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.[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]
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المراجع
- ^ أ ب (in nb)Nordkalotten, 2021-01-30, http://snl.no/Nordkalotten, retrieved on 2022-03-31
- ^ Kvenangen, P. G. (1996) (in sv), Samernas historia, Jokkmokk, Sweden: Sameskolstyrelsen, p. 11, ISBN 9177160525