where do polar bears live?
Details... Â© Daniel J. Cox/Natural Exposures. Polar bears live in the circumpolar north in areas where they can hunt their primary prey, ice seals. They are found in Canada (home to roughly 60% of the world's polar bears), the U.S. (Alaska), Greenland, Russia, and Norway (the Svalbard archipelago).The polar bear Range States have identified 19 populations of polar bears living in four different sea ice regions across the Arctic.lthough popular art and children's books often show polar bears and penguins together, the two live at opposite poles. Polar bears live in the Arctic, a massive frozen sea surrounded by continents. Penguins live in Antarctica, an ice-covered continent surrounded by oceans. 1  Learn about the polar bear's home range.