what are the Nordic and/or Scandanavian countries?

Answer 1

Oh my God, how many different answers is there!!!!!! - And only one got it right!!!!!

Scandinavia equals Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

The Nordic countries equals Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.

-And I'm from Denmark so you can take my word for it....

Answer 2

The Nordic countries comprise Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, Greenland and the autonomous territories of the Faroe and Aland Islands.

Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe named after the Scandinavian Peninsula. The most common definition includes continental Denmark, mainland Norway and Sweden. Sometimes, Finland is included even in official contexts

Answer 3

The problem in getting down an answer is that there are various definitions:

A. Geographically - Scandinavian countries are those that share the Scandinavian Peninsula, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Peninsula ) a geographical outcropping of the Great Northern European plain. Scandinavia is geographically distinct (no mountains between The Scandinavian Mountains - that separate Norway and Sweden and the Urals.) Geographically, only Sweden and Norway are part of Scandinavia.
B. Culturally - Scandinavian culture refers to those nations that share a linguistic background - Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Icelandic and other northern isle languages (Faeroe) - all being descended from the North German Family of the Indo-European Languages ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Germanic_languages ) Finnish, which is related to Estonian and Hungarian is in the Finno/Ural - Altaic family of languages. Also the "cultural" Scandinavian countries share a "historical" culture in terms of the Age of the Vikings and its "sagas." ( http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0842936.html )
2) Political - from an early date the various unifying monarchies that followed the Viking Age 793-1066 - "Norman" (north man) conquest of England is often considered the final viking raid
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Age ) - trued to establish a "Northern" or "Baltic" empire. All this came to a head in the Union of Kalmar 1397 - 1523 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmar_Union ) united the various Scandinavian countries under one union. From the Danish monarchy came Denmark, Norway, Iceland and the northern islands, some North German principalities (Holstein) and the original Scania (now the Southern tip of Sweden. From the Swedish monarchy came Sweden, Finland (conquered/colonized by Sweden c. 1000,) Estonia, the Baltic islands (Gotland) later joined by the lands of Teutonic knights (Latvia, Lithuania after 1410.) This was the first, but not the last union whose base in Scandinavia included (or tried to include) all of the "northern countries" (from the north sea to the Baltic.) The Swedish monarchy under the Vasa dynasty broke the union, but tried to establish a Swedish/Scandinavian Kingdom (until defeated by Peter the Great of Russia in the Great Northern War (1700-1721) Again, during the Napoleonic Wars, the French general Bernadotte (adopted by the Swedish King as his heir) by switching sides and giving Finland to Russia (1812,) hoped to build a Scandinavian Kingdom. In the treaty of Vienna he received Norway and Iceland, which remained untied with Sweden until 1905.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadotte ) Through out the 19th century there was a political "Scandinavian" movement which wanted to use the Scandinavian Monetary Union of 1873 as a basis for a "greater" Scandinavia. However, in the aftermath of WWII, in the various attempts to "unite" Europe superseded such regional alliances.
So depending on whether you want geographic, cultural or political Scandinavia you get a different group of countries. The Nordic or Northern European countries would include them all.
Sorry to go on at such length, I hope this helps.

Answer 4

Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland. Finland IS Nordic country! Difference from other Scandinavian countries is that Finnish language is not from the Scandinavian group of languages (North Germanic to be precise), actually is not even indo-european.

Answer 5

The usage and meaning of the term outside Scandinavia is somewhat ambiguous:

Finland and Iceland are often counted as parts of Scandinavia.
From a German point of view, Norway, Sweden and Finland are usually included, but Denmark is not.
From a British point of view, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are usually included, often with the addition of Iceland and Finland.

Answer 6

Used to live in Sweden myself. They will tell you that the Scandinavian countries are Sweden Denmark and Norway. Don't include Finland. The Swedish hate that and the Finn`s hate being included in a group that includes Sweden who , according to them , are full of their own self importance!!

Answer 7

Scandinavia - four countries. Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden.

Answer 8

Norway, Finland, Sweden & Denmark.
Y couldn't U look on Multimap, UR self?

Answer 9

Norway, Sweded, Dalek, and Skaro.

Answer 10

F, U, Þ, A, R and K - THE START OF THE RUNE ALPHABET WAS SPOKEN IN NORWAY SWEDEN DENMARK