List of northernmost settlements
The most northern settlements on Earth are communities close to the North Pole, ranging from about 70°N to about 89°N. This is a list showing all of the northernmost settlements on Earth, which are all south of Latitude 90°N. The northernmost settlement in the world is currently Camp Barneo, a Russian tourist attraction located at 88°11'00"N currently, however there are few to no civilian settlements north of 79°N, the furthest north (78.55°N) being Ny-Ålesund, a permanent settlement of 35-117 people on the  Norwegian island of Svalbard. Just below this settlement at 78.12°N is Svalbard's primary city, Longyearbyen, boasting a population of 1000-3000, is much more definitively what the average person would accept as the northernmost town. However Longyearbyen is not what most people think of as cities, very large populations, complex economies, dominant regional importance etc. By this definition of city there are two possible candidates. The first is the Russian port city of Murmansk, at 69.00°N with an estimated population of 300,000. If we are to expand the requirements to that of a city, then  At 59.94°N and 5 million people the city of Saint Petersburg, the second largest city in Russia, wins when considering both size and latitude. Saint Petersburg is almost an order of magnitiude larger next city north of itself, the Finnish capital of Helsinki at 62°N and 600,000 people. Saint Petersburg is the dominant largest than all cities south of itself until reaching Moscow at 55°N, nearly 5° below the city. Therefore while Murmansk is the northernmost large city, while Saint Petersburg is the largest northern city. The table below shows the settlements, towns , and cities with a population with more than 250,000 inhabitants living in them that are the northernmost in the world of their kind. Cities and towns. This is a list of the northernmost cities and towns in the world. Larger cities. Northernmost cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants. The population data may include municipalities, urban areas or metropolitan areas. Northernmost cities with more than 250,000 inhabitants.