Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Almost completely located above the Arctic Circle in northwestern RUSSIA, NENETSKIY AVTONOMNYY OKRUG (spelled Nenets Autonomous Okrug in English) is an administrative division lying below the Barents Sea, Kara Sea, and the Arctic Ocean. The two seas are west and east of Novaya Zemlya, a large vertically-oriented island depicted at a much too large scale on many maps - especially maps with Mercator projections. According to the Climate Zones layer of the online National Geographic MapMaker Interactive, Nenetskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug is predominantly in the Cold Polar Climate with tundra and ice, and these climatic conditions are only found in extreme northern of Russia and Canada and all of Antarctica and Greenland. In N.A.O. this climate is found in northern and eastern areas, on its islands, and on the large Kanin Peninsula in western N.A.O. The southern extent of Nenetskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug features a Humid Cold Climate with no dry season. The principal and main city of okrug include Nar'yan-Mar. As a fun fact, reindeer husbandry is a common practice throughout the N.A.O.