The Nordics

For people living in the Nordics or have any relation to Nordics of any kind or if your a fan of Nordics

Ok, I don't wanna be a dick but.. Finland is on the group picture as if it were a part of Scandinavia, but it isn't :P #justsaying!

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Ok, I don't wanna be a dick but.. Finland is on the group picture as if it were a part of Scandinavia, but it isn't :P #justsaying!what about renaming the group to Nordic countries and include more countries, rather than excluding one?

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Well we included finland in this group as we like you but if your happy we can take it away if that is better for you

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Well we included finland in this group as we like you but if your happy we can take it away if that is better for youNo Finn/people in Finland complained about it. Someone located in Sweden did.

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Oh arno, no-one is complaining. I'm just pointing it out. And I don't wanna exclude anyone, I wanna be that pundit person that makes a group react for the first time in two years.. ;)

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Finland is part of political Scandinavia, called "The Nordic" or "Norden" usually. So members of a political body called Nordic Council form the political Nordic.

Linguistically Finland is also part of Scandinavia as Swedish is the other official language in Finland and the only official language on Aaland islands that are an autonomous part of Finland.

Strictly geographic Scandinavia is only Norway and Sweden as they the only countries on Scandic peninsula.

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Scandinavia usually (in English usage) refers to Denmark, Norway, Sweden or just to the Scandinavian Peninsula. However, more boadly it can also include the Aland Islands, the Faroe Islands, Finland and Iceland too. Conversely, the Nordic Region or Norden, besides all those countries and territories can include Greenland as well. Sometimes Finland is exluded because Finnish is not a Scandinavian language (Uralic, Finnic branch), so ethnically they are different from the rest of Scandinavians. At one time Finland was part of the Swedish Kingdom or Swedish Empire (17th and 18th centuries), Finland is a bilingual country, with both Finnish and Swedish being official languages and are being taught in school. When I lived in Finland back in the early 60's, I had to learn both. So the bottom line is, Finland geographically could and should be included in Scandinavia.

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In Germany Scandinavia (Skandinavien) is the geographical name of the nordic countries Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. The term Scandinavia is derived from the area of Skane (in German Schonen) in the south of Sweden as I have heard there.

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Have to pitch in. Are the Shetland and Orkney Islands not Nordic? Possibly Isle of Man. And the cover photo is missing the Aland Islands flag. We could argue about Karelia?

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Have to pitch in. Are the Shetland and Orkney Islands not Nordic? Possibly Isle of Man. And the cover photo is missing the Aland Islands flag. We could argue about Karelia?

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