fishamaphone said:
bdbdbd said:
NJ5 said:
bdbdbd said:
Yojimbo said:
NJ5 said:
In case you didn't know, Denmark is part of Scandinavia... |
Pff we will never accept Denmark as a part of the Scandinavia :D |
lol I think i pretty much sure know what countries are Scandinavia, you teach it in the first grade in school. Scandinavia is Sweden and Norway. And Finland is counted as part of Scandinavia (this Scandinavia, with those 3 countries is called Fenno-Scandia). Denmark is not part of Scandinavia, but it is not part of continental Europe either. Its the same thing like UK (or GB, to be more specific), its just Denmark (it also is a part of the Nordic countries [Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland]) |
You're talking about the geographical peninsula meaning of scandinavia, which is not the most common usage nowadays.
http://m-w.com/dictionary/scandinavia PS: Anyway, what matters for the purposes of this forum is that Denmark is economically and socially similar to Norway and Sweden (while Finland is different from those countries). |
Almost forgot this topic... Now i get it, it's because of how do you define Scandinavia. In Scandinavia we have whole different meaning to your "Scandinavia of five". Well ok, i'm not exactly from Scandinavia. :) The peninsula is Scandinavia. Period. And now i'm interested about, how does Finland differ from Sweden, Norway and Denmark socially and economically? Norway does differ because of it's better income, but it's also the smallest of those countries. And Sweden being the poorest, when looking at peoples income, it's the biggest by pop. |
Finland, I would assume, has stronger cultural ties to Russia than Norway or Sweden. I mean, they *were* part of Russia as recently as 100 years ago.
(this is my assumption, I could be wrong) |
yes you are wrong, im from sweden, I live in stockholm, finland was actually a part of sweden, so was norway, during swedens period of greatness....well it was quite a while ago, but during a couple of hundreds of years, finland and norway actually belonged to us, and that must have left a trace.
...i can't really speak for finland or norway, i just think we are kind of brothers up here, especially in the relationsship between norway and sweden, although we let them down during the second world war.
