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Distribution
Bearded seals are extant in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. In the Pacific region, they extend from the Chukchi Sea in the Arctic south into the Bering Sea where they span from Bristol Bay on the Alaskan coast to the Sea of Okhotsk on the Russian coast, up to but not including the northern coast of Japan. In the Arctic Ocean, they are found along the northern coasts of Russia, Norway, Canada, and Alaska, including the Norwegian Archipelago of Svalbard and Canadian Arctic Archipelago. In the Atlantic, Bearded seals are found along the northern coast of Iceland, the east and west coasts of Greenland and the Canadian mainland as far south as Labrador.

Although the range typically only extends down into sub-arctic areas bearded seals have been seen in Japan, China, as well as extremely far south of their range in Germany,Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Spain and Portugal.