The
Kola Peninsula (from ; ,
Kolsky poluostrov) is a
peninsula in the far northwest of
Russia. Constituting the bulk of the territory of
Murmansk Oblast, it lies almost completely inside the
Arctic Circle and is bordered by the
Barents Sea in the north and the
White Sea in the east and southeast. The city of
Murmansk is the most populous human settlement on the peninsula, with a population of over 300,000 as of the
2010 Census.