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Far North

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noun

  1. the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of the world

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But even before the war, many of Russia’s main oil fields in western Siberia and the Volga-Urals were depleting, forcing producers to shift to more complex and costly oil deposits in the far north and east.

From The Wall Street Journal

Each province and territory in Canada saw a fall in temporary residents, excluding Nunavut in the far north where the number rose an estimated 10 people.

From The Wall Street Journal

Also in Mali, some nationalist sections of political and military opinion were frustrated with the functioning of a 2015 peace agreement with former Tuareg separatists in the far north, overseen by UN troops.

From BBC

Our architectural charioteer was a boy sorcerer from Canada, a student and teacher of wisdom, a shooting star from the far north, he was a gift for our pale and profane world of careless creation and disdain.

From Los Angeles Times

Katsina state, in Nigeria's far north, is a case in point.

From BBC