The Nordic countries as a group: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, and their associated territories which include the Faroes, Greenland, and Åland
{i} region in northern Europe (includes Norway, Sweden, Denmark and sometimes Finland, Iceland and the Faeroe Islands)
an area of North Europe consisting of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. Region of northern Europe, usually defined as comprising Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. It is sometimes used more broadly to include Finland and Iceland. Norway and Sweden occupy the Scandinavian Peninsula, though Denmark is part of the North European Plain. The Scandinavian peoples are linked by cultural similarities, and they speak a closely related group of Germanic languages
Any of the Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and the Faeroe Islands
a group of culturally related countries in northern Europe; Finland and Iceland are sometimes considered Scandinavian the peninsula in northern Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden
() From Late Latin, alteration of Scadinavia, from Proto-Germanic *Skaþinawjō (“Scadia island”) (compare Old English Scedenig, Old Norse Skaney 'southern tip of Sweden'), from *-aujo 'island' (compare Old English ī(e)g 'island', Old Norse ey 'island').