Northernmost settlements
Some of the northernmost settlements in the world are:
- Alert, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada 82°28' N - Pop. 5 persons
- Eureka, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada 79°59´ N - Pop. 0 persons
- Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway 78°55´ N, 11°56´ - Pop. 30 persons
- Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway 78°12' N - Pop. 1600 persons
- Barentsburg, Svalbard, Norway 78°04' N - Pop. 950 persons
- Qaanaaq (Thule), Greenland, Denmark 77º30' N - Pop. approximately 650 persons
- Grise Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada 76º25' N - Pop. 163 persons
- Barrow, Alaska, United States 71°18' N - Pop. 4,683 persons
- Mehamn in Gamvik, Finnmark, Norway 71°05' N - Pop 900 persons
- Honningsvåg, Finnmark, Norway 70° 58' N - pop. 2,575 persons
- Hammerfest, Finnmark, Norway 70°39' N - pop. 9200 persons
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Larger cities (50,000+) north of the Arctic circle
- Norilsk, Russia 69°57' N - Pop. 127,503
- Tromsø, Norway 69°40' N - Pop. 61,897
- Murmansk, Russia 68°58' N - Pop. 319,263
- Vorkuta, Russia 67° 30' N - Pop 116 000
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See also
- Southernmost settlements
- Extreme points of the world
- The world´s most northern bagpipe orchestra, city, capital, zoo etc.