What is Scandinavia?

In this video I explain the difference between the Nordic countries and Scandinavia, as well as other relevant terms in the region, such as the Scandinavian peninsula and Fennoscandia.

[Mr.Septon]

Man I love your videos and even get good re-watchability out of them. Your quality of videos definitely deserves a much larger subscriber count, but I remember when you just had a few thousand. I am happy to see you steadily growing :)

[roejogan]

Would you consider Shetland and Orkney to be Nordic? They're in the same region as the Faroe islands and most residents are descendants of Nordic people

[accountthatillusetocomment]

3:41 i cant believe you missed the chance to *finnish* this segment with a pun.

[Wah.]

can you make a vid about why some parts of the sapmi region in sweden and finland is refered to as lappland while lappland is a region in swden the bigest one in fact

[fonox]

Can you make a new video on the Kalmar union about there former colenies or how the empire was run

[dillonkinder]

What’s really strange is in Norse Mythology it takes place in Scandinavia but also said it take place in world tree in the cosmos

[JTL]

@NEATLING.
Please do a video. Similar to your space politics one.
About the future unions of the western civilization.
ANGLO-SPHERE.
EUROPEAN FEDERATION.
INTERMARIUM.
NORDIC UNION.

[zzzzzzzzzzz]

Cpuld you please make, ,Countrys at their greatest extent: Part 7“?
Please!💖

[CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

I always found the whole constituent country formulation really confusing and not aligning with colloquial speech.

Like someone might refer to a region as a country. That’s normal. But the term is often conflated with country meaning a sovereign state. Like that happens all the time for the UK, as if Scotland being a designated country is the same as being a sovereign UN member state. I wish “autonomous region” or something would just become the global standard somehow.

[seifsaaed]

I checked on Wikipedia and Google Maps. The Nordic countries are in Europe. It includes Scandinavian countries like Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and non-Scandinavian countries like Finland and Iceland.

[jonlevidalkvistagustsson]

Ok so 1. Iceland is no longer called the Republic of Iceland and we haven't named that for a while. And 2. Svandinavia at its core refers to the Scandinavian peninsula which includes Sweden, most of Norway, and Northwest Finland.

[wiwersewindemer]

I've seen enough estonians online wishing they were part of Sweden to consider them nordic. Consider me bribed.
Edit: You forgot to mention the Nordic Councils 5+3 program.

[DJPJ.]

0:44 Don't forget about the sami language, or the sampi region for that matter.

[PranavMaru]

I came here to be clear about this.... Now I am more

[Jayvee]

1:13 - Finland is basically Scandinavia's adopted child and Estonia is their biological cousin.

[dillonkinder]

I think the Nordic countries are supposed to resemble the realms in Norse Mythology

[Kalleosini]

this is so confusing and I live there.

[yomilkers]

When you call your southern ocean the North Sea

[pakilanparoni]

Finland was part of Scandinavia, but has later turned into an unwanted bastard child that the other Scandinavian countries don't want to recognize. If Finland was still part of Sweden, as it was for almost 700 years, no one would question Finland (Eastern Sweden) as part of Scandinavia. As a little tidbit, let me tell you that Skåne has been a part of Sweden for a shorter time than Finland was at the time. On the other hand, no part of Denmark even belongs to Scandinavia geographically, but is considered an integral part of it. Scandinavia or the Nordic countries are a region where people's culture, geography and history are intertwined, and in the border areas it is sometimes difficult to notice that you are moving from one country to another. I have at least Danish, Swedish and Finnish blood in my heritage, so I am a Scandinavian who lives in Finland or a Finn who lives in Scandinavia. Oh, and I'm also European and damn proud of it all.

[Ksheriffi]

it is not "generally speaking" it is an absolute FACT that Estonia is not nordic, never has been and never will be... no matter how much Estonians want it or not, no one outside Estonia has EVER considered them nordic.