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Fact sheet · People profile · AK-SAMI-2026
Sápmi

Sámi

Arctic & Europe
50 000 – 100 000
Sámi languages (9 living)
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia
State-recognized · Self-identified
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Reindeer-herding people of the European Arctic, with their own elected parliaments in three countries.

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