WordNet
n. the northernmost countries of Europe
Wikipedia
Northern Europe is the northern part or region of Europe. Although no definitive borders or definition exist for the term, geographically, northern Europe consist of (from west to east): Iceland, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the United Kingdom, the Faroe Islands, the Netherlands, northern Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, northern Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and northwest Russia. Greenland, geographically a part of North America, is politically a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and may be included depending on the definition.
Usage examples of "northern europe".
When Peter died in 1725 he was the owner of the largest city in northern Europe.
As we shall see, the peoples of northern Europe contributed nothing of fundamental importance to Eurasian civilization until the last thousand years.
In recent centuries overseas colonists from cool northern Europe have preferred to emigrate to the similarly cool climates of North America, Australia, and South Africa, and to settle in the cool highlands within equatorial Kenya and New Guinea.
It grows in rocky pastures throughout temperate and northern Europe.
I read that northern Europe--well, this was long ago--it had ice on it.
But, judging from the difficulty they'd been having with radio transmission to Holland, the rain seemed to be part of a storm front crossing over a large stretch of northern Europe.
But had Hitler seized the first moment in June, using every available vessel afloat in western and northern Europe-there were thousands-to hurl an invasion body across the Channel, the fleet would have been caught by surprise, as it had been in the Norway operation.