Northern Europe

==Geography==
{{Main|British Isles|Scandinavian Peninsula|Fennoscandia|Jutland|Baltic region}}
Northern Europe might be defined roughly to include some or all of the following areas: [[British Isles]], [[Fennoscandia]], the peninsula of [[Jutland]], the [[Baltic region|Baltic]] plain that lies to the east, and the many islands that lie offshore from mainland Northern Europe and the main European continent. In some cases, [[Greenland]] is also included, although it is only politically European, comprising part of the [[Kingdom of Denmark]], and not considered to be geographically in Europe.

The area is partly mountainous, including the northern volcanic islands of [[Iceland]] and [[Jan Mayen]], and the mountainous western seaboard, Scotland and Scandinavia, and also often includes part of the large plain east of the [[Baltic sea]].

The entire region's climate is at least mildly affected by the [[Gulf Stream]]. From the west climates vary from [[Oceanic climate|maritime]] and maritime subarctic climates. In the north and central climates are generally [[subarctic]] or [[Arctic]] and to the east climates are mostly [[subarctic]] and [[temperate]]/[[Continental climate|continental]].

Just as both climate and relief are variable across the region, so too is vegetation, with sparse [[tundra]] in the north and high mountains, [[boreal forest]] on the north-eastern and central regions [[temperate coniferous forests]] (formerly of which a majority was in the [[Scottish Highlands]] and south west [[Norway]]) and [[temperate broadleaf forests]] growing in the south, west and temperate east.