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*3 ‘GEOGRAPHICALLY SCANDINAVIAN’ COUNTRIES“*
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*3 MORE ‘CULTURALLY SCANDINAVIAN’ COUNTRIES*
*FAROE ISLANDS*
(part of the ‘kingdom of denmark”)
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(“we come from the land of the ‘ice’ and ‘snow’…)
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*”scandinavia” is a historical and cultural region in ‘northern europe’ characterized by a common ethnocultural North Germanic heritage and mutually intelligible ‘north germanic languages’*
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(in english usage, Scandinavia sometimes refers to the area known as the “Scandinavian Peninsula”)
(the term Scandinavia always includes the 3 kingdoms of ‘Denmark’, ‘Norway’, and ‘Sweden’)
(the remote Norwegian islands of Svalbard and Jan Mayen are usually not seen as a part of Scandinavia, nor is Greenland, an overseas territory of Denmark)
(however, the Faroe Islands, also a Danish overseas territory, are sometimes included, as sometimes are Iceland, Finland, and the Finnish autonomous region of the Åland Islands, because of their historical association with the Scandinavian countries and the Scandinavian peoples and languages)
(this looser definition almost equates to that of the Nordic countries)
(in the local languages, Skandinavia/Skandinavien often means the European parts of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, whereas the name Norden is more commonly used for the extended region that includes Finland, Iceland, and overseas parts of Denmark and ‘Norway’)
(the name ‘Scandinavia’ originally referred vaguely to the formerly Danish, now Swedish, region ‘Scania’)
(the terms Scandinavia and Scandinavian entered usage in the late 18th century as terms for Denmark, Norway and Sweden, their Germanic majority peoples and associated language and culture, the term being introduced by the early linguistic and cultural Scandinavist movement)
(the majority of the population of ‘Scandinavia’ are descended from several (North) Germanic tribes who originally inhabited the southern part of Scandinavia and spoke a Germanic language that evolved into ‘Old Norse’)
(‘icelanders’ and the Faroese are to a significant extent descended from the Norse, and are therefore often seen as ‘scandinavian’)
(‘finland’ is mainly populated by ‘Finns’, with a minority of approximately 5% of Swedish speakers)
(a small minority of Sami people live in the extreme north of ‘Scandinavia’)
(the ‘Danish’, ‘Norwegian’, and ‘Swedish’ languages form a dialect continuum and are known as the ‘scandinavian languages’—all of which are considered mutually intelligible with one another)
(‘faroese’ and ‘icelandic’, sometimes referred to as ‘insular scandinavian languages’, are intelligible in continental scandinavian languages only to a limited extent)
(‘Finnish’ and ‘Meänkieli’ are closely related to each other and more distantly to the Sami languages, but are entirely unrelated to the scandinavian languages)
(apart from these, ‘german’, ‘yiddish’, and ‘romani’ are recognized minority languages in parts of ‘scandinavia’)
(the southern and by far most populous regions of ‘Scandinavia’ have a temperate climate)
(‘Scandinavia’ extends north of the ‘Arctic Circle’, but has relatively mild weather for its latitude due to the ‘Gulf Stream’)
(much of the scandinavian mountains have an alpine tundra climate)
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(there are many ‘lakes’ + ‘moraines’, legacies of the last “glacial period”, which ended about 10 millennia ago)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥