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The Baltic Finnic or Balto-Finnic peoples, also referred to as the Baltic Sea Finns, Baltic Finns, sometimes Western Finnic and often simply as the Finnic peoples, are the peoples inhabiting the Baltic Sea region in Northern and Eastern Europe who speak Balto-Finnic languages. They include the Finns, Estonians , Karelians , Veps, Izhorians, Votes, and Livonians. In some cases the Kvens, Ingrians, Tornedalians and speakers of Meänkieli are considered separate from the Finns.
The bulk of the Finnic peoples are ethnic Finns and Estonians, who reside in the only two independent Finnic nation states—Finland and Estonia.
Finnic peoples are also significant minority groups in neighbouring countries of Sweden, Norway and Russia.
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