I think it depends on how you break it down.
Geographically, Scandinavia includes Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. I
don't believe Iceland is included in that.
If you go along linguistic lines, it's Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland,
all being Scandinavian languages (Finnish is a Finno-Urgic language, and is
one of the few non-indo-european languages spoken in Europe).
Ethnically, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland, not sure about Finland.
Bonus bits of trivia:
I believe there are only 3 other non-indo-european languages spoken in
Europe; Basque, Magyar (Hungarian), and Estonian.
Estonian is the forgotten one, normally you will read that the closest
language to Finnish is Magyar but it's actually Estonian.
Andrew
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Gomez" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 3:35 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Dutch/Danish (was "Solvang")
> Scandinavia commonly includes Norway, Sweden and Denmark (at least to my
> memory; I don't know what's "official" any more). I'm not at all sure why
it
> seems to often exclude Finland.
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