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Scandinavia

This article is about Scandinavia as a historical and cultural-linguistic region. For the peninsula, see Scandinavian Peninsula. For the broader group of northern European countries including Finland and Iceland, see Nordic countries. For other uses, see Scandinavia (disambiguation).
Scandinavia is a historical and cultural region in Northern Europe characterized by a common ethno cultural North Germanic heritage and mutually intelligible North Germanic languages.[2]
The term Scandinavia always includes the three 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.[3] This looser definition almost equates to that of the Nordic countries. In Nordic languages, only Denmark, Norway and Sweden are commonly included in the definition of Scandinavia.
In English usage, Scandinavia sometimes refers to the geographical area, also known as the Scandinavian Peninsula. 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.
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