What is the Arctic region?
The Arctic region surrounding the North Pole, to which Finland belongs, is by its nature a unique area. The cultures in the region and the Arctic indigenous peoples have adapted to its cold and extreme conditions. From the perspective of the physical, chemical and biological balance in the world, the Arctic region is in a key position. It reacts sensitively particularly to changes in the climate, which reflect extensively back on the global state of the environment. From the perspective of research into climatic change, the Arctic region is considered a so-called-early warning system. There are many definitions for the Arctic region. The boundary is generally considered to be north of the Arctic Circle (66° 33’N), which is the limit of the midnight sun and the winter twilight. In international cooperation, the Finnish Arctic region is the northern part of the Province of Lapland above the Arctic Circle. In the natural sciences, this area is a so-called subarctic region. See the definit
