Novaya Zemlya (, lit.
new land), also known, especially in
Dutch, as
Nova Zembla, is an
archipelago in the
Arctic Ocean in the North of
Russia and the extreme Northeast of
Europe, the
easternmost point of Europe lying at
Cape Flissingsky on the Northern island. Administratively, it is incorporated as
Novaya Zemlya District, one of the
twenty-one in
Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.
Municipally, it is incorporated as
Novaya Zemlya Urban Okrug. Its population as of the
2010 Census was 2,429, of which 1,972 resided in
Belushya Guba, an
urban-type settlement that is the
administrative center of Novaya Zemlya District. The population in 2002 was