Northern Europe is the northern part or region of Europe. Geographically, northern Europe is usually taken to consist of Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the British Isles (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) and Greenland (which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark). Greenland is geographically located in North America and is sometimes included in the northern Europe grouping or the Nordic countries, though rarely Scandinavia proper. The British Isles are occasionally included in Western Europe. Some northern parts of Russia are also in the northern part of Europe.Before the establishment of the Nordic Council in 1952, the term "Nordic", or "Northern", was commonly used to also refer to the Lutheran Baltic countries Estonia and Latvia, as well as the northern sections of European Russia.
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