Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a geographical area in northern Europe. Typically, Scandinavia is considered to consist of the countries of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Denmark. If Scandinavia is defined strictly by the geographical limits of the Scandinavian peninsula, Denmark is excluded.

Although there are distinct differences, the Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish languages are quite similar; citizens of some Scandinavian countries are able to understand each other quite well. Finnish is not mutually intelligible with the other languages; indeed, Finnish is not even in the Indo-European language family. Finnish is part of the Finno-Ugric family, the only language related to it is Hungarian.