Global Linkages

Arctic population and development

PACIFIC OCEAN

OKHOTSK SEA

BERING SEA

Anchorage

Anadyr

Alaska (USA)

Fairbanks

Whitehorse

NORTH ALASKA

ALASKA

YUKON BEAUFORT MACKENZIE

WESTERN CANADIAN BASIN

CHUKOTKA A.O.

Tiksi

Yellowknife

IÑUVIK

SAKHA REPUBLIC

CANADA

FORT SMITH

Queen Elisabeth Islands

RUSSIA

KITIKMEOT

SVERDRUP BASIN

ARCTIC OCEAN

Resolute

Norilsk

TAYMYR (DOLGANO-NENETS) A.O.

KIVALLIQ

WESTERN SIBERIA

KITIQTAALUK NUNAVIK

HUDSON BAY

Dudinkha

YAMALO-NENETS A.O.

Qaanaaq

Novy Urengoï Nadym

Ivujivik

NENETS A.O.

BAFFIN BAY

Svalbard (Norway)

Iqaluit

Salekhard

Vorkuta

MURMANSK BARENTS SEA

GREENLAND

USINSK

TIMAN PECHORA

Ilulissat

SWEDEN FINLAND HAMMERFEST SVALIS

Naryan Mar

Nuuk Kangerlussuaq

Murmansk

NORWAY

Greenland (Denmark)

ICELAND

Archangelsk

Tromsø

FAROE IS.

Rovaniemi

Bodø

Reykjavik

NORWEGIAN SEA

Kiruna

FINLAND

ICELAND

SWEDEN

ATLANTIC OCEAN

Faroe Islands (Denmark)

NORWAY

Population centres

Population distribution: composition by main regions

300,000

60,000 30,000 3,000 and less

170,000

100 %

Indigenous

50 %

Main transport routes for raw materials Potential routes for raw materials

Oil and gas fields

Large mines

0 %

Non-indigenous

50 %

A.O. : Autonomous okrug

100 %

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