Indigenous Peoples of Asia - Circumpolar North

The Circumpolar North generally includes the lands surrounding the Arctic Circle.

  • Evenks, China, Mongolia, Russia
  • Inuit: Greenland, Northern Canada (Nunavut and Northwest Territories), Alaska
    • Kalaallit, Greenland
  • Koryaks, Russian Far East
  • Chukchi, Siberia, Russia
  • Sami: Northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Kola peninsula in Russia
  • Yupik: Alaska and the Russian Far East
    • Alutiiq, Alaska
    • Central Alaskan Yup'ik, Alaska
    • Cupik, Alaska
    • Siberian Yupik, Siberia, Russia
  • Inupiat: Alaska's Arctic and North Slope boroughs and the Bering Straits
  • Northern Samoyedic peoples
    • Nenets, Russia
    • Enets, western Siberia, Russia
    • Nganasan, Taymyr Peninsula, Siberia, Russia
  • Ugric peoples, Yugra, Siberia, Russia
    • Khanty, Yugra, Siberia, Russia
    • Mansi, Yugra, Siberia, Russia
  • Yukaghirs, East Siberia, Russia

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Famous quotes containing the word north:

    Ah, how shall you know the dreary sorrow at the North Gate,
    With Li Po’s name forgotten,
    And we guardsmen fed to the tigers.
    Li Po (701–762)