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No such "place" as Scandinavia... a mountain range, Scandit Mountains, runs through Norway & Sweden... Finland, because attached, gets rolled in to "scandinavian countries" Swedish Heritage, Norway Viking, World Thinking Day, Lillehammer, Scandinavian Countries, Umea, Nordic Countries, Northern Europe, Helsinki

Scandinavia is an arctic region in Northern Europe. It consists of Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland; all are independent countries. The Scandinavian nations of Norway, Denmark, and Iceland are all full members of NATO, and are charged with defending their borders should Western Europe be attacked by the Soviet Union. World War III broke out in Summer, 1989 after peace negotiations between NATO and the U.S.S.R. failed to yield a peace agreement between the two factions. The…

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All three Scandinavian countries - Denmark, Norway and Sweden - are Nordic, but not all the Nordic countries are Scandinavian. Iceland and Finland are Nordic, while Norway, Sweden and Denmark (apart from Greenland and the Faroe Islands) are both Nordic and Scandinavian. Are you still with me? Nowadays, when we refer to Scandinavia, we actually mean the Nordic countries. Officially, Finland and Iceland are not part of Scandinavia. But because they do have a culture very similar to the other…

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