GeographyLand Areas
Most of the population of the eight "Arctic" countries—Russia, the U.S., Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Finland—actually lives in the area considered subArctic by physical geography definitions. These countries, with the exception of Sweden and Finland, border the Arctic Ocean.
Major islands in the Arctic include Greenland, Svalbard, and the vast Canadian Archipelago, including Baffin, Ellesmere, and Victoria Islands. Several other island groups lie on the continental shelf north of Eurasia.