What ethnic groups are Scandinavian?

Question

I know Norweigen is, but is Swedish, Swiss, Danish considered Scandinavian? And pls don't laugh, but what countries make up the Netherlands?

Answer 1

Scandinavia - Denmark, Norway, Sweden. (Not Switzerland.)

The Scandinavian countries are also considered as Nordic countries along with Iceland and Finland, and the surrounding islands too, I believe.

Netherlands - Holland- the Dutch.

BTW, if you ever have the opportunity to go to any of these places, jump on it. They are beautiful and the people are all so friendly.

Answer 2

Norway and Sweden are located on the Scandinavian Peninsula , and includes three kingdoms , The sweeds , the danks , and best of all NORWEGIANS!!

Sometimes the other Nordic countries , Finland , Iceland , Estonia and the Faroe Islands are considered to be part of Scandinavia but its not true.

So the only Scandinavian ethnic groups are Norway , Sweden and Denmark.


Vaer sa god , god natt

~ Kolsen

Answer 3

Anthony D. Smith, a extensively-quoted authority on ethnicity, says "An ethnic crew is a set of human beings whose contributors change into attentive to with one yet another, by a common heritage that is genuine or assumed." the human beings of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark are the style of set. So definite, "Scandinavian" is an ethnic crew and definite, you may say "Scandinavian" quite of asserting "Swedish and Norwegian." yet another answerer signifies that "Nordic" is extra valuable. The time period "Nordic" is way less precise, even with the reality that, because it refers to human beings from the three Scandinavian international places plus Iceland, Greenland, Finland, and some different elements.

Answer 4

Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The Netherlands are the Dutch.

Answer 5

Scandinavian countries are:
Sweden (language Swedish, people Swede)
Norway (language Norwegian, people Norwegian)
Denmark (language Danish, people Dane)

Nordic countries are:
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Finland (language Finnish, people Finn)
Iceland (language Icelandic, people Icelander)

Very good information source is http://www.norden.org/

Ethnic groups according to the CIA World Factbook:

Sweden: Swedes with Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks

Norway: Norwegian, Sami 20,000

Denmark: Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali

Finland: Finn 93.4%, Swede 5.7%, Russian 0.4%, Estonian 0.2%, Roma (Gypsy) 0.2%, Sami 0.1%

Iceland: homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norse and Celts 94%, population of foreign origin 6%

Answer 6

Netherlands is one country. They're the Dutch people.

Answer 7

Scandivania are Sweden,Norway & Denmark but some do regard Iceland & Finland is scandivania too. Netherlands is a whole other story and they have Dutch ppl...Good old Amsterdam...with their "special coffee shops" LoL

Answer 8

when it comes to ethinc groups: norway, sweden, denmark and iceland

swiss have nothing to do with those guys

and holland is an independent country - not made up of several