Scandinavia

Scandinavia proper consists of , and , of which the former two lie on the Scandinavian peninsula. In English, the term "Scandinavia" is often used to refer to the , which in addition to these three include and , and the autonomous , and .
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  • Region
  • Description: region in Northern Europe
  • Also known as
    “Codanonia”
    “Codanovia”
    “Scadan”
    “Scadanan”
    “Scadinavia”
    “Scandanan”
    “Scandenavia”
    “Scandinavian civilization”
    “Scandinavian countries”
    “Scatenauge”
    “Scatinavia”
    “Scedeland”
    “Scedenigge”
    “Skandenavia”
    “Skandinavía”
    “Skandinavien”
    “Skanör”
  • Location:
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Scandinavia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Skandinawië”
  • Albanian: “Skandinavia”
  • Amharic: “ስካንዲናቪያ”
  • Arabic: “إسكندينافيا”
  • Arabic: “إسكنديناوة”
  • Arabic: “إلاسكندنافي”
  • Arabic: “اسكدنافيا”
  • Arabic: “اسكندنافيا”
  • Arabic: “الإسكندنافية”
  • Arabic: “الدول الاسكندنافية”
  • Arabic: “الدول الاسكندينافية”
  • Arabic: “دول إسكندنافية”
  • Arabic: “دول سكاندنافية”
  • Arabic: “دولة اسكندنافية”
  • Arabic: “دولة سكاندنافية”
  • Arabic: “سكاندانافيا”
  • Arabic: “سكاندنافيا”
  • Arabic: “سكندنافيا”
  • Aragonese: “Escandinabia”
  • Aragonese: “Escandinavia”
  • Aragonese: “Países escandinavos”
  • Armenian: “Սկանդինավիա”
  • Arpitan: “Scandinavia”
  • Arpitan: “Scandinavie”
  • Asturian: “Escandinavia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Skandinav”
  • Azerbaijani: “Skandinaviya”
  • Bashkir: “Скандинавия”
  • Basque: “Eskandinavia”
  • Bavarian: “Skandinavien”
  • Belarusian: “Скандынавія”
  • Belarusian: “Скандынавы”
  • Bengali: “স্ক্যান্ডিনেভিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Skandinavija”
  • Bosnian: “Skandinavski poluotok”
  • Breton: “Skandinavia”
  • Breton: “Skandinavien”
  • Bulgarian: “Скандинавия”
  • Bulgarian: “Скандинавските страни”
  • Burmese: “စကင်ဒီနေးဗီးယား”
  • Burmese: “စကန်ဒီနေးဗီးယား”
  • Catalan: “Escandinau”
  • Catalan: “Escandinaus”
  • Catalan: “Escandinàvia”
  • Catalan: “Països Escandinaus”
  • Cebuano: “Eskandinabya”
  • Cebuano: “Scandinavia”
  • Central Kanuri: “Scandinavia”
  • Central Kurdish: “سکاندیناڤیا”
  • Chinese: “斯堪地”
  • Chinese: “斯堪地拉维亚”
  • Chinese: “斯堪地纳维亚”
  • Chinese: “斯堪地那維亞”
  • Chinese: “斯堪的納維亞”
  • Chinese: “斯堪的纳维亚”
  • Chinese: “斯堪的纳维亚国家”
  • Chinese: “斯堪的纳维亚地区”
  • Chinese: “斯堪的那維亞”
  • Chuvash: “Скандинави”
  • Croatian: “Skandinavija”
  • Czech: “Skandinávie”
  • Czech: “Skandinávské země”
  • Danish: “de skandinaviske lande”
  • Danish: “Skandinavien”
  • Dimli (individual language): “İskandinavya”
  • Dutch: “Scandinavië”
  • Dutch: “Scandinavische landen”
  • Dutch: “Scandinavische”
  • Dutch: “Skandinavië”
  • Eastern Mari: “Скандинавий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اسكندنافيا”
  • Esperanto: “Skandinavianoj”
  • Esperanto: “Skandinavio”
  • Esperanto: “Skandinavujo”
  • Estonian: “Skandinaavia maad”
  • Estonian: “Skandinaavia riigid”
  • Estonian: “Skandinaavia”
  • Faroese: “Skandinavia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Scandinavia”
  • Fijian: “Sikadinavia”
  • Finnish: “Skandinavia”
  • French: “pays scandinaves”
  • French: “Scandinavia”
  • French: “Scandinavie”
  • Friulian: “Scandinavie”
  • Galician: “Escandinavia”
  • Galician: “Península Escandinava”
  • Georgian: “ორესუნის ხიდი”
  • Georgian: “სკანდინავია”
  • German: “Scandinavia”
  • German: “Skandinavien”
  • German: “Skandinavier”
  • Gilaki: “ايسکانديناوي”
  • Greek: “Σκανδιναβία”
  • Greek: “Σκανδιναυία”
  • Greek: “Σκανδυναβία”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Scandinavia”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sṳ̂-khâm-tit-nâ-vì-â”
  • Hebrew: “חצי האי הסקנדינבי”
  • Hebrew: “מדינות סקנדינביה”
  • Hebrew: “סקנדינביה”
  • Hebrew: “סקנדינוויה”
  • Hiligaynon: “Eskandinabya”
  • Hindi: “स्कैंडिनेविया”
  • Hindi: “स्कैण्डिनेविया”
  • Hindi: “स्कैण्डिनेवियाई देश”
  • Hungarian: “Skandináv országok”
  • Hungarian: “Skandináv”
  • Hungarian: “Skandinávia”
  • Icelandic: “Skandinavía”
  • Ido: “Skandinavia”
  • Indonesian: “Skandinavia”
  • Interlingua: “Scandinavia”
  • Irish: “Críoch Lochlann”
  • Italian: “Codanonia”
  • Italian: “Paesi scandinavi”
  • Italian: “Scandinava”
  • Italian: “Scandinave”
  • Italian: “Scandinavi”
  • Italian: “Scandinavia”
  • Italian: “Scandinavo”
  • Italian: “Scatinavia”
  • Japanese: “スカンジナヴィア”
  • Japanese: “スカンジナビア”
  • Japanese: “スカンディナヴィア”
  • Japanese: “スカンディナビア”
  • Javanese: “Skandinavia”
  • Jèrriais: “Escaundinavie”
  • Kabiyè: “Skandinavii”
  • Kabyle: “Skundinavya”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಕ್ಯಾಂಡಿನೇವಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಕ್ಯಾಂಡಿನೇವಿಯಾ ದೇಶಗಳು”
  • Kashmiri: “اسکینڈینیویا”
  • Kazakh: “Скандинавия”
  • Khmer: “ស្កង់ឌីណាវី”
  • Korean: “스칸디나비아”
  • Kurdish: “Skandînav”
  • Kurdish: “Skandînavya”
  • Lao: “ສະກັງດີນາວີ”
  • Latin: “Scandia”
  • Latin: “Scandinavia”
  • Latvian: “Skandināvi”
  • Latvian: “Skandināvijā”
  • Limburgan: “Scandinavië”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Scandinavia”
  • Lithuanian: “Skandinavij”
  • Lithuanian: “Skandinavija”
  • Lithuanian: “Skandinavijos valstybės”
  • Lojban: “bertu’a”
  • Lojban: “skadin”
  • Lojban: “skadinauis”
  • Lombard: “Scandinavia”
  • Low German: “Scandinaovië”
  • Low German: “Scandinavië”
  • Low German: “Skandinavië”
  • Low German: “Skandinavien”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Skandinawiska”
  • Luxembourgish: “Skandinavien”
  • Macedonian: “Скандинавија”
  • Malagasy: “Skandinavia”
  • Malay: “Scandinavia”
  • Malay: “Skandinavia”
  • Manx: “Loghlin”
  • Marathi: “स्कँडिनेव्हिया”
  • Marathi: “स्कॅन्डिनेव्हिया”
  • Mazanderani: “اسکاندیناوی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Scandinavia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Skandinavia”
  • Minangkabau: “Skandinavia”
  • Mingrelian: “სკანდინავია”
  • Mongolian: “Скандинав”
  • Northern Frisian: “Skandinaawien”
  • Northern Frisian: “Skandinoowien”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Skandinavia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skandinavia”
  • Norwegian: “Skandinavia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Escandinàvia”
  • Ossetian: “Скандинави”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਕੈਂਡੀਨੇਵੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Skandinavia”
  • Persian: “اسکاندیناوی”
  • Persian: “شبه‌جزیرهٔ اسکاندیناوی”
  • Polish: “Kraje skandynawskie”
  • Polish: “Skandynawia”
  • Portuguese: “Escandinava”
  • Portuguese: “Escandinávia”
  • Portuguese: “Escandinavo”
  • Portuguese: “Escandinavos”
  • Portuguese: “Países escandinavos”
  • Romanian: “Scandinavia”
  • Romanian: “Scandinaviei”
  • Romanian: “Țările Nordice”
  • Romansh: “Scandinavia”
  • Russian: “Скандинав”
  • Russian: “Скандинавия”
  • Russian: “Скандинавские страны”
  • Russian: “Скандинавы”
  • Russian: “страны Скандинавии”
  • Rusyn: “Шкандінавія”
  • Sardinian: “Iscandinàvia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Skandinavien”
  • Scots: “Scandinavie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lochlainn”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lochlann”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lochlannaich”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Scandinavia”
  • Serbian: “Скандинавија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Skandinavija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Скандинавија”
  • Sicilian: “Scandinavia”
  • Sindhi: “اسڪينڊينيويا”
  • Sinhala: “ස්කැන්ඩිනේවියා”
  • Sinhala: “ස්කැන්ඩිනේවියානුවන්”
  • Sinhala: “ස්කැන්ඩිනේවියාව”
  • Slovak: “Škandinávia”
  • Slovak: “Škandinávske krajiny”
  • Slovenian: “Skandinavija”
  • Somali: “Iskandanefiyan”
  • Somali: “Skandinafiyen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایسکاندیناوی”
  • Spanish: “Escandia”
  • Spanish: “Escandinavia”
  • Spanish: “NRJ”
  • Spanish: “Países Escandinavos”
  • Spanish: “Reinos escandinavos”
  • Spanish: “Scandia”
  • Spanish: “Scandza”
  • Spanish: “Tierras nórdicas”
  • Swahili: “Skandinavia”
  • Swedish: “Skandinavien”
  • Swiss German: “Skandinavie”
  • Swiss German: “Skandinavien”
  • Tagalog: “Escandinavia”
  • Tagalog: “Eskandinabya”
  • Tagalog: “Iskandinaba”
  • Tagalog: “Iskandinabo”
  • Tagalog: “Iskandinabya”
  • Tagalog: “Iskandinabyana”
  • Tagalog: “Iskandinabyano”
  • Tagalog: “Scandinavia”
  • Tagalog: “Scandinavian”
  • Tamil: “இசுக்காண்டினேவியா”
  • Tamil: “இசுக்கேண்டிநேவியா”
  • Tamil: “எசுக்காண்டினாவியா”
  • Tamil: “சுகாண்டினேவியா”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்காண்டினேவியா”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்கான்டினாவியா”
  • Tatar: “Скандинавия”
  • Telugu: “స్కాండినేవియా”
  • Thai: “Scandinavia”
  • Thai: “Skandinavia”
  • Thai: “กลุ่มประเทศสแกนดิเนเวีย”
  • Thai: “สแกนดินาเวีย”
  • Thai: “สแกนดิเนเวีย”
  • Turkish: “İskandinav ülkeleri”
  • Turkish: “İskandinav”
  • Turkish: “İskandinavya”
  • Uighur: “Shimaliy Yawropa”
  • Uighur: “شىمالىي ياۋروپا”
  • Ukrainian: “Скандинавія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Skandinawiska”
  • Urdu: “اسکاندینیویا”
  • Urdu: “اسکینڈینیویا”
  • Urdu: “اسکینڈے نیویا”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ نما اسکینڈے نیویا”
  • Urdu: “سکنڈے نیویا”
  • Urdu: “سکینڈے نیویا”
  • Uzbek: “Skandinaviya”
  • Venetian: “Scandinàvia”
  • Veps: “Skandinavii”
  • Vietnamese: “Bán đảo Scandinavia”
  • Vietnamese: “Scandinavi”
  • Vietnamese: “Scandinavia”
  • Vietnamese: “Scandinavơ”
  • Vietnamese: “Xcăngđinavi”
  • Vlaams: “Scandinoavië”
  • Volapük: “Skandinän”
  • Võro: “Skandinaavia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Eskandinabya”
  • Welsh: “Gwledydd Llychlyn”
  • Welsh: “Gwledydd Sgandinafaidd”
  • Welsh: “Llychlyn”
  • Welsh: “Scandinafia”
  • Welsh: “Sgandinafaidd”
  • Welsh: “Sgandinafia”
  • Western Frisian: “Skandinaavje”
  • Western Frisian: “Skandinavië”
  • Western Mari: “Скандинави”
  • Western Panjabi: “سکینڈینیویا”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯堪的纳维亚”
  • Yiddish: “סקאנדינאוויע”
  • Yue Chinese: “斯堪的納維亞”

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