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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