Content on Sápmi

Approaches to the Arctic reveal wider geopolitical trends as well as the Nordic countries' domestic concerns.

Human rights violations require meaningful responses, but whether "sorry" is significant depends on the context

The use of folk costumes is widespread in, for example, Åland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Sami areas and their social importance varies,…

Yoik is the native Sami musical expression which is reminiscent of singing. It has layers of meaning as it holds identity markers and was…

Duodji, the Sami word for handicrafts/applied art, has a long and illustrious history. Handicraft has been influenced by the need to survive in a…

National museums in the Nordics retain an important role in the creation and maintenance of a particular view of a country, its people and often its…

Organisations exist to facilitate the discussion and coordination of policies in areas of joint interest to the Nordic countries. The Nordic Council…

The Nordic region, or Norden, may be defined as consisting of the five sovereign states Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, plus the three…

There has been much more official involvement with the Nordic languages than with English. That is true even of the well-established Danish, Icelandic…

Quick overview:

• In Denmark the principal language is Danish, with about 5,750,000 speakers (in 2018), but varieties of German are spoken in…