Scandinavian and Russian taiga

	Forest of Pinus sylvestris with an understory of Calluna vulgaris in Leivonmäki National Park, Finland.
	Map of ecoregion in northeastern Europe
Ecology
Realm	Palearctic
Biome	Taiga
Borders	List Scandinavian coastal conifer forests; Scandinavian montane birch forest and grasslands; Kola Peninsula tundra; Northwest Russian-Novaya Zemlya tundra; Urals montane tundra and taiga; Sarmatic mixed forests;
Geography
Area	2,150,900 km2 (830,500 sq mi)

The Scandinavian and Russian taiga is an ecoregion within the taiga and boreal forests biome as defined by the WWF classification (ecoregion PA0608). It is situated in Northern Europe between tundra in the north and temperate mixed forests in the south and occupies about 2,156,900 km² (832,800 sq mi) in Norway, Sweden, Finland and the northern part of European Russia, being the largest ecoregion in Europe. In Sweden the taiga is primarily associated with the Norrland terrain.

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