Fennoscandia
63°00′00″N 17°00′00″E / 63.0000°N 17.0000°E
Fennoscandia (Finnish: Fennoskandia; Swedish: Fennoskandien; Norwegian: Fennoskandia; [Фенноскандия Fennoskandiya] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)), or Fenno-Scandinavia, is a term for the geographical Nordic region comprising the Scandinavian Peninsula, Finland, Karelia, and the Kola Peninsula.[1] Thus the term usually covers the countries Finland, Norway and Sweden in their entireties.[2] It also includes the Murmansk Oblast, much of the Republic of Karelia and parts of northern Leningrad Oblast in Russia. Its name comes from the Latin words Fennia (Finland) and Scandia (Scandinavia).[3] The term was first used by the Finnish geologist Wilhelm Ramsay in 1900.[4]
See also
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Geography portal- Scandinavia
- Lapland (region)
- Geology of the Baltic Sea
- Regions of Europe
- Reindeer in Russia
References
- ^ The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers, eds. Vicki Cummings; Peter Jordan; Marek Zvelebil (Oxfored; New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), p. 838
- ^ Sten Lavsund; Tuire Nygren; Erling Solberg (2003). "Status of moose populations and challenges to moose management in Fennoscandia". Alces. 2003. HighBeam Research.
- ^ "Fennoscandia [fen′ō skan′dē ə]". Your Dictionary. LoveToKnow, Corp. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
- ^ De Geer, Sten (1928). "Das geologische Fennoskandia und das geographische Baltoskandia". Geografiska Annaler (in German). 10. Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography: 119–139.
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