The Cap of the North ( in Norwegian and Swedish, or in Finnish) is the regions of Norway, Sweden, and Finland located north of the arctic circle. It usually consists of the counties Troms og Finnmark and Nordland 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. The Kola Peninsula was considered a part of this region until 1917, but this was changed after the Russian Revolution, with the new Soviet Union closing their borders. Sámi historian Per Guttorm Kvenangen has criticized the term for displacing the overlapping term Sápmi and hiding the "Sámi character" of northern Fennoscandia. References Geography of Northern Europe Geography of Eastern Europe Geography of Nordland Geography of Troms og Finnmark Geography of Murmansk Oblast Geography of Sweden Geography of Finland