Circumpolar peoples  

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Circumpolar peoples and Arctic peoples are umbrella terms for the various indigenous peoples of the Arctic.

List of peoples by ethnolinguistic grouping

• Ancient Beringian - Siberia and Alaska
• Chukotko-Kamchatkan
  • Koryaks, Siberia (Kamchatka Krai), Russia
  • Chukchi, Siberia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug), Russia
• Tungusic
  • Evenks, China (Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang), Mongolia, Russia
  • Evens, Siberia (Magadan Oblast, Kamchatka Krai and Sakha), Russia
• Turkic
  • Northeast Turkic
    • Dolgans, Siberia (Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia
    • Yakuts, Siberia (Sakha), Russia
• Eskimo-Aleut
  • Eskimo
    • Yupik: Alaska and the Russian Far East (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug)
      • Alutiiq, Alaska
      • Central Alaskan Yup'ik, Alaska
        • Cupik, Alaska
      • Siberian Yupik, Siberia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug), Russia
    • Inuit: Greenland, Northern Canada (Nunavut, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, Northwest Territories (Inuvik Region) and Yukon), Alaska, United States
      • Kalaallit, Greenland
      • Iñupiat: Northwest Arctic and North Slope boroughs and the Bering Straits, Alaska, United States
  • Aleut: Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States and Kamchatka Krai, Russia
• Uralic
  • Ugric peoples, Yugra, Siberia, Russia
    • Khanty, Yugra, Siberia, Russia
    • Mansi, Yugra, Siberia, Russia
  • Permian
    • Komi, Russia (Komi Republic and Perm Krai)
  • Sami: Northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia (Murmansk Oblast)
  • Finnic
    • Finns, Finland
    • Karelians, Finland and Russia
  • Samoyedic
    • Nenets, Russia
    • Enets, Siberia (Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia
    • Nganasan, Siberia (Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia
    • Selkup, Siberia, Russia
• Yukaghirs, East Siberia, Russia
• Indo-European
  • Germanic
    • North Germanic
      • Icelanders, Iceland
      • Norwegians, Norway
  • Slavic
    • East Slavic
      • Russians, Russia

See also

• Indigenous peoples of Siberia
• Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic
• Inuit Circumpolar Council