Northern Europe is the northern part of the European continent.
Most people see the following states as part of it: - The Nordic
countries, including Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and
Sweden, as well as Åland, the Faroe Islands and occasionally
Karelia, Kola Peninsula and Svalbard - The Republic of Ireland,
the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands (but
see also Western Europe) - The Baltic states, i.e. Estonia,
Latvia, and Lithuania (but see also Eastern Europe) - Areas
bordering the Baltic Sea and theNorth Sea, e.g. north-western
Russia, northern Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg,
and northern Germany. Europe, the planet's 6th largest
continent, includes 47 countries and assorted dependencies,
islands and territories. Before the 19th century, the term
'Nordic' or 'Northern' was commonly used to mean Northern Europe
in a sense that included the Nordic countries, European Russia,
the Baltic countries (at that time Livonia and Courland) and
Greenland. In earlier eras, when Euro