Finland is one of the world's most northern and geographically remote countries, about one-third of it lying north of the Arctic Circle. Heavily forested, it contains thousands of lakes, numerous rivers, and extensive areas of marshland. [source] ...
North America, third largest of the world’s continents, lying for the most part between theArctic Circleand theTropic of Cancer. It extends for more than 5,000 miles (8,000 km) to within 500 miles (800 km) of both theNorth Poleand theEquatorand has an east-west extent of 5,000 mi...
The Baltic proper stretches southwest-northeast on the eastern side of the Scandinavian Peninsula from latitude 54° N to very near the Arctic Circle; its major axis, from eastern Denmark to southern Finland, is a little more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) long, with an average width of ...