Northern Europe

From Metapedia

Northern Europe is a term for the northern part of Europe, though its precise boundaries are vague and defined variously. It is a term that groups the Nordic countries (which are present in all definitions):

• Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, as well as Åland, the Faroe Islands, Jan Mayen and Svalbard. (Though politically and historically closely tied to Northern Europe, the Nordic territory of Greenland is nevertheless geographically closer to the continent of North America.)

along with a selection of the following which varies from definition to definition:

• The Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
• The British Isles: Ireland, Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man (see also Western Europe).
• Areas bordering, or in close proximity to, the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, i.e. north-western Russia (including Kaliningrad), northern Poland, northern Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the French region of Nord-Pas de Calais.
• Occasionally Ingria, Karelia and the Kola Peninsula (see also Eastern Europe).