The most northern settlements on Earth are communities close to the
North Pole
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's rotation, Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. It is called the True North Pole to distingu ...
, ranging from about
70° N to about
89° N. The North Pole itself is at 90° N.
There are no permanent civilian settlements north of
79° N, the furthest north (78.55° N) being
Ny-Ålesund
Ny-Ålesund ("New Ålesund") is a small town in Oscar II Land in the west of the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard. It is situated on the Brøgger peninsula (Brøggerhalvøya) and on the shore of the bay of Kongsfjorden. The company town is owned ...
, a permanent settlement of about 30 (in the winter) to 130 (in the summer) people on the Norwegian archipelago of
Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norway, Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. North of continental Europe, mainland Europe, it lies about midway be ...
. Just below this settlement at 78.12° N is Svalbard's primary city,
Longyearbyen
Longyearbyen (, , "Longyear Town") is the world's northernmost settlements, northernmost settlement with a population greater than 1,000, and the capital and the largest inhabited area of Svalbard. It stretches along the foot of the left bank ( ...
, which has a population of over 2,000.
When occupied for a few weeks some years, the northernmost temporary settlement in the world is
Camp Barneo, a Russian tourist attraction located near 88°11'00" N. As of 2022, it had not been occupied since 2018.
The tables below show the settlements, towns, and cities that are the northernmost in the world of their kind.
All locations
Cities and towns
This is a list of the northernmost cities and towns in the world.
Larger cities
Northernmost cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants. The population data may include municipalities, urban areas or metropolitan areas.
Northernmost cities with more than 250,000 inhabitants.
See also
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Southernmost settlements
Southernmost settlements are cities, towns, weather stations or permanent military bases which are farther south than 45th parallel south, latitude 45°S. They are closely related to the Southern Ocean or either the Roaring Forties or Furious Fift ...
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Extremes on Earth
This article lists extreme locations on Earth that hold geographical records or are otherwise known for their geophysical or meteorological superlatives. All of these locations are Earth-wide extremes; extremes of individual continents or count ...
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List of northernmost items
This is a list of various northernmost things on Earth.
Cities and settlements
Geography
Nature
Wild animals
Plants
These lists only contain naturally occurring plants and trees, excluding individuals planted by humans.
General
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List of research stations in the Arctic
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...
References
External links
Up Here Magazine, 'explore Canada's far north' {{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129121644/http://www.uphere.ca/node/36 , date=2010-11-29
Populated places of Arctic Russia
Lists by region
Extreme points of Earth
Northernmost settlement
Northernmost