Scandinavia is the peninsula and cultural region of northern Europe comprising Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, bound by the Norwegian Sea, the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, and the Skagerrak strait. Its long coastlines, fjord-cut mountains, and boreal forests shaped a maritime and seafaring culture from the Viking Age onward, and the term is sometimes extended more broadly to include Finland and Iceland among the Nordic countries.
Facts
Area (sq km)Norway, Sweden and Denmark proper; figures run higher if Svalbard, the Faroe Islands or Finland and Iceland are folded into a broader Nordic definition. Population2022 estimate, Norway, Sweden and Denmark combined. Connections
Associated With
Scandinavia is sometimes used as a synonym for the Nordic countries but more properly names the three Nordic monarchies.
Source Nordic Countries (Wikipedia)
Wadden Sea, Bodies of Water Why this is disputed. Denmark, one of the three Wadden Sea nations, is conventionally grouped as Scandinavian/Nordic, though the Danish Wadden Sea coast itself lies on the Jutland peninsula rather than in the Scandinavian core; the atlas records this as an approximate regional association, not a precise containment claim.
Source Wadden Sea Quality Status Report
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Agriculture and Farming Atlas: Great Famine of 1315-1317, found there there.
- Also in Business Atlas: Scandinavian Airlines, part of this there.
- Also in Divinity Atlas: North Sea, found there there.
- Also in Food and Drink Atlas: Aquavit, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Food and Drink Atlas: Smorrebrod, is where this subject originated.
- Also in History Atlas: The Reformation, found there there.
- Also in History Atlas: The Viking Age, found there there.
- Also in Language Atlas: Germanic, found there there.
- Also in Language Atlas: Old Norse, found there there.
- Also in Language Atlas: Paleo-Laplandic languages, found there there.
- Also in Language Atlas: Para-Romani, found there there.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Eddic Verse, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Nature Atlas: Priapulus Caudatus, found there there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Biathlon, found there there.
- Also in Sport and Games Atlas: Nordic Skiing, found there there.
Sources
1. Scandinavia (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationIntroduction
The geography of the region is varied, from the Norwegian fjords in the west and Scandinavian mountains covering parts of Norway and Sweden, to the low and flat areas of Denmark in the south, as well as archipelagos and lakes in the east.
Introduction (2)
Iceland and the Faroe Islands are sometimes included, due to their ethnolinguistic ties to Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
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Wikidata: Scandinavia
Wikidata Q21195, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source Wadden Sea Quality Status Report
Common Wadden Sea Secretariat, Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands)Associated With: Wadden SeaView the Source Nordic Countries (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Nordic Countries, Lead sectionQuote, Associated With: Nordic Countries, Lead section
Scandinavia is sometimes used as a synonym for the Nordic countries, but that term more properly refers to the three monarchies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
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