hey guys welcome back to uh foreign reacts today we're going to be checking out a video titled
where is scandinavia so um where is scandinavia it is a three minute 48 seconds uh video so we're
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the comment section down below and uh if you're from scandinavia please do comment uh which part
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myself today where is scandinavia so let's get right into that guys scandinavia look at this
arctic fjords saunas swords luke fish blondes vikings blonde vikings fjords ikea babies in
government issued boxes santa death metal and fjords but like where exactly are the borders of
scandinavia because not all of this stuff is in it scandinavia is just three countries sweden norway
and denmark what kingdoms to be finland is not in it i thought finland was in it yo i'm so sorry bro
i thought finland was in it i thought they were gonna say norway sweden and finland
but it was denmark what why is finland not in it what all of which are on the scandal because
not all of this stuff is in it scandinavia is just three countries exactly sweden norway and denmark
three kingdoms to be more precise all of which are on the scandinavian peninsula well except denmark
and or plus finland wait this doesn't help at all forget that the three countries on this peninsula
can be collectively called fenuscandia but if you do everyone will look at you weird because no one
except the nerdiest of geography nerds uses that word phenoscandia so scandinavia is a term that's
one part geography one part history and one part linguistics which is why people will argue
about who exactly is included finland is normally excluded because she used to be considered one of
the baltic sisters with historical ties to mother russia and denmark though on the other side of the
sea is included because of her relationship it's complicated with sweden they've had something like
15 to 21 wars between them depending on how you want to count it and it's complicated er
because they mostly fought over norway and who wouldn't she's beautiful and rich anyway when
outsiders say scandinavia they probably mean the nordic countries that's these three plus finland
and iceland though you can hardly blame people for confusion when organizations like the american
scandinavia foundation lists everyone as members and all the nordic countries sometimes advertise
abroad under the banner of scandinavia anyway this is the holland approach to international relations
if there's a fun name that everyone likes and keeps using wrongly just go with it the nordic
countries get along well enough that they've made an official union the nordic council a viking cool
kids club that other northern european places occasionally unrealistically dream of joining
though the baltic sisters do get to sit with them but not actually vote on anything the nordic
council is largely a collection of committees that tries to get its members to cooperate on
common problems like the arctic environment and social welfare and business in the region and
also finds time to make a surprisingly long and hilariously specific list of rules for how their
logo can be used including a respect distance the sovereignty of which must not be violated
but the biggest deal of the nordic council is that citizens of these five countries get to live and
work in any of the others which if you've seen the eu video adds yet another semi-overlapping
bubble of complexity to an already complex region the immigration rule however doesn't apply to
icelandic horses which are one super adorables and two banished from returning to iceland should they
ever leave but that's a story for another time now it wouldn't be a political union in europe without
some special territorial weirdness to mention mainly island an autonomous region of finland
that speaks swedish and the pharaoh islands and greenland both countries in the kingdom of denmark
greenland is really the odd girl out in the nordic club given that she's in the wrong hemisphere
and that greenlanders aren't historically or linguistically related to nords also her flag
ruins the otherwise consistent design motif but this is part of denmark because vikings lastly
there's a svalbard an unincorporated territory of norway that must be mentioned because it has
prepared for the apocalypse with a seed bank of every plant to rebuild all of agriculture
should it be necessary and it's also guarded by armored bears so that's that next time you say
scandinavia and you're not 100 sure who that includes just say the nordic countries instead
oh makes sense make sense make sense make sense short video but it made sense say the nordic
countries instead yeah because i was thinking that finland was a part of the scandinavian country
but denmark sweden and uh norway that's kind of crazy i did not know that but either ways guys
uh yeah that's gonna be guys uh i hope you guys enjoyed please leave a like on
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