Is Finland a Scandinavian country?

#finland #scandinavia #history
This question I get asked ALOT! Is Finland a Scandinavian country? let's take a look!

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[aaronstavern]

Comment so I can get that sweet sweet algo boost

[oontaakissa]

It's nice that Finns and Scandinavians can agree that Finns are not Scandinavian. Now if rest of the world understood and agreed with us that would be cool 😂

[Disillusioned_JELly]

You forgot one geographic - or rather geological - definition of Scandinavia: Scandes. It's the Scandinavian mountain range.
Apparently, the only reason Denmark is even above sealevel is because it's located on top of the southern most part of the geological formation.

[trond-ivaringebrigtsen]

Short answer No, long answer Hell no.

[nobbynoris]

I have never been to Finland personally but I am reliably informed that it is quite a long way from Egypt and lots of miles from Japan.

[herrakaarme]

I guess purely geographically, if you totally ignored national borders, one should draw a line from Tornio/Haparanda to somewhere northeast, maybe to the great city of Varangerbotn in Norway, to mark the beginning of the Scandivanian peninsula. I'm not sure of how much of Finland that would leave within the Scandinavian peninsula, maybe 1/7 or 1/6. It would also leave a tiny bit of Norway outside of it, but that's just how it is in my eyes.

[HeadsFullOfEyeballs]

It's funny how Finns get annoyed when you lump them in with Scandinavians, while the Estonian government markets the country as Scandinavian on the basis that it's kinda like Finland.

[windsongshf]

Factoid: The largest concentration of Finns in the U.S. are in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The "U.P" is still pretty wild. It's 1/3 the land mass of the state of Michigan but only has 4 % of the state's population! Finns like their solitude. :)
P.S. my Finnish family immigrated to the UP in the late 1800s. My mom and dad were born there. :)

[Lupupu]

There was just an article in the "Tiede" magazine (11/2023) about how Finns were considered barbaric, idiotic, lazy and violent people, whose destiny was to be ruled over. This was a pretty common belief among Swedes and other Europeans even in the 20th century.

[surroundgatari]

i'm a ruotsalainen, my message is: Finland is awesome and chill af

[johncrwarner]

The rise of the use of the Finnish language
by the educated elite in the 19th century
is interesting
Many drivers of Finnish nationalism
were of Swedish origin but altered their names
to make themselves more Finnish.

The same happened in Estonia too.

[MultiCanis]

I remember when I first saw that new slogan of Oulu. I was sitting in a buss and another buss went by with that slogan taped on it. I immediately went "but we're not part of Scandinavia, wth".

[sam_mg]

Interesting video!

Did you use music from Skyrim as background music? It reminds me of the music they play in the taverns, hehe.

Regards from Mexico.

[dasmarkopo]

Still is Sweden and Finland pretty intertwined. Swedens biggest foreign population used to be Finland (maybe still, but debatable). Still there are a lot of finns (1st, 2nd generation) in Sweden. Would like to see even more cooperation between Finland and Sweden (culturally, politically and so forth). They share a lot of common history. A lot of finnish loanwords in Finland is a direct translation of many common Swedish words.

[SaintElvardielSHMD]

Wow! I appreciate this video a lot. I even learned that my grandmother's birthplace was once controlled by Sweden in Norway. Did not know that. Also you illustrated the Russian relationship well.

[mirvale]

Never realised Skåne is Scania in english.

[Larzh]

As you correctly point out, the rest of the world should learn to use the term "Nordic countries". "Scandinavia" only makes sense in a purely geographical sense (the peninsula shared between Norway and Sweden), and perhaps a linguistic sense, which would include Denmark (or more precisely, the lands where the "continental" north-Germanic languages of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are spoken). Geopolitically speaking, there is no such thing as Scandinavia.

[Rowanberry]

Just to add: also when Finland gained independence at the same time as the Baltic countries the 1st time, we were considered a Baltic country, and only after the USSR had taken the Baltic countries Finland was considered a Nordic country more than a Baltic one

[Gibbetoo]

do you teach history? great video. again.

[colincrowley]

Hmmmm 🍀🤔 lol

Excellent video, not boring at all - but I've always found that type of thing fascinating.