The Sami people also spelled Sámi or Saami are the indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting the Arctic area of Sápmi which today encompasses parts of far northern Norway Sweden Finland the Kola Peninsula of Russia and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway. The Sámi are the only indigenous people of Scandinavia recognized and protected under the international conventions of indigenous peoples and are hence the northernmost indigenous people of Europe.
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