There are factual errors in the film. The Germans had transit traffic to Finland Who was helped by Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union. Not Norway. They were already invaded.
Such a weird Thesis this video has. Finland, Sweden, and Norway have ballpark the same population density. The interresting question is rather why Denmark has such a high one.
Sweden has 95,700 lakes larger than 1 hectare (100x100 meters). For comparison, it can be mentioned that Finland, which is usually called the land of a hundred thousand lakes, has 56,000 lakes larger than 1 ha and Norway has 65,000 lakes larger than 1.5 ha.
Ur annoying for pointing it out and everyone else are annoying for not knowing well established facts. And then we have the most annoying people who disregard established facts and common reason by nitpicking geography nerd shit about parts of Finland. We want people to learn about us, we share more things than not. Stop being bricks.
Estonia was incoporated in Sweden after the collapse of the German Teutonic order in the Baltics. Estonia found themselves squeezed between Sweden (protestant), Poland-Lithuania (catholic) and Russia (ortodox). The German nobility of Estonia opted for Sweden as their best bet and more or less willingly joined Sweden, presumably due to shared religion and the fact that not having a land connection with Sweden would grant Estonia greater autonomy. Livonia was a region located in modern day southern Estonia and northern Latvia. It became a major battle ground area between the three empires competing over the Baltics. Also, I am not an expert on this matter and am writing out of memory, so feel free to correct any mistakes I might have made.
I live in the middle of Sweden (norrland) I don`t think the cold is so bad .. We know that the sun is soon coming. (We have something to long for ) And the spring and autumn is beautiful and not so cold
Spot on lad - the simple answer is it's 10x the size of Denmark by area, Norway's a keel of a Mountain and Fjords - great for holiday homes by the water, not quite so great for cities or farmland to feed those cities. Wealth-wise Norway has oil for days (we won't get into Denmark giving up their share of the oil fields back in the day to them because literally drunk politicians lol) and some amazing forestry, Sweden likewise "got wood" and has the largest rare earth deposits outside China and they been mining/producing iron since the Viking age. Denmark is effectively a sandbank (or mud pit as Barbs would say) made up of the erosion from the mountains in Norway and Sweden as the ice receded and scoured it's way down, time and again. The amusing thing is once Greenland melts, probably half of Denmark will be under water - a potential reason they didn't wanna let the Americans take it over 👼 Get you with your knowledge on the Finns and Hungarians. Finland has a good deal of 'permanent snow' that Norway and Sweden also have, which culturally/lifestyle wise means they're closer since people such as the Sámi would touch the North of Sweden and Norway over a thousand or more years. All in all, you pretty much nailed it. Final note: Skåne, Blekinge and Halland (the Southern tip of Sweden) was only ceded to them by Denmark around the 1650s - it's the original homeland of the "Danes", before they pushed most of the Angles and Jutes out towards England and the whole "Anglo-Saxon" invasion thing.
@@matshjalmarsson3008 To quote various online sources "Legend has it that Per Hækkerup had drunk too much whisky and thereby become overly generous with the Norwegians, who accordingly ended up with the area containing Ekofisk. He thereby deprived his fellow Danes of substantial revenues." - Don't think Sweden were involved this time. Edit: Hækkerup was Foreign Affairs Minister, Trade Minister and Minister for Economics for Denmark through a period in the 60s and 70s.
@@rickybuhl3176 Perhaps, it was too long ago for me to remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure a deal with Volvo that went south was a part of it. I rely on YT and other sources to an extent, but when I've been there and seen that, it kinda trumps the news outlets
@@matshjalmarsson3008 Never heard of the connection and can't find it mentioned online anywhere, nor any Swedish involvement. You're going have to show something to explain how a Swedish car manufacturer is involved in North Sea oil fields in Danish/Norwegian waters that Sweden had no involvement in for me to see any sense in it to be honest. It was during the oil crisis, so perhaps Volvo/Sweden were in different talks on a different subject around the same time but it's seemingly not got enough to do with the subject in question that any sources I can find mention it. Edit: ..and let's be honest, if we could find a way of blaming the Swedes for it, we would lol /j
@@rickybuhl3176 It really doesn't matter, it was shown on national tv and aired on radio, but if it's not true I don't really care. It's like ok, you want to to do stupid stuff, go ahead and learn some shit.
The Finns once migrated from the Ural Mountains into the area of modern day Finland. That’s why the language has nothing in common with its neighbouring counties except for Estonia.
By land area, Sweden is bigger than Germany but the German population is 8 times larger. Reason: The same Germany is warmer and has more agricultural land.
One reason for finnish population size is that Finland is between Russia and Sweden... all the wars trough out history between Swe and Rus have had some effect on finlands population as each time we get killed when some of our neighbours goes grazy
Finland was swedish for around 600 years, Im a swedish/finnish person (alot of finnish people moved to sweden). Swedish is a big part of many finnish people. "finlandssvenska"
When I read about our Nordic history, I think we in Sweden benefited from not being “anti-US” to the same extent as our neighbors. Furthermore, a big focus on English already in the first classes of school.
FInland's population has also been affected quite a lot by the multiple famines and raids from Russia throughout the years. In the famine of 1695-1697 roughly 150,000 people died in Finland. In the 1866-1869 famine another circa 154,000-170,000 people died in Finland (about 8.6% of the population), and in those year more people died than born. There was frost and snow even into June.
Sweden did NOT let Germans traverse Sweden to invade NORWAY. Sweden did however let German soldiers in Norway traverse Sweden to invade USSR, Sweden's Arch Enemy. And the decision to to that was very controversial. Also, invading Norway through Sweden would just be stupid, when you could do it through Denmark and the coastline, which IS what Gemrnay did. The whole reason for invading Denmark was to invade Norway and secure the port of Narvik.
Here's a fact about Finland. On average, Finland gainst about 1 square meter of new land every 5 seconds. True story. (Well Sweden and Norway grow as well) Oh yea, Finns also suffered from massive famines (like Ireland). Oh and Russians killed a bunch of Finns and took Finns as slaves and sold some in the Persian slave markets. Bet you didn't know that.
Oh you are so incorrect. There was no Scanian tribe during the short period of what is to referred to the Viking era. Besides, the tribe of the Danes originally came from modern day Sweden.
@@paulingvar Well you need to read up about history. Genetics show that Dane’s migrated south east from what is now Sweden to Denmark around AD 300. Around this time, Danes were genetically homogeneous to other Scandinavian tribes. Later in Germanic Iron Age, around year 500, Danes became recipients from genetic influences from the south (today’s Poland to the Black Sea) and became distinctly different. Around Viking age, Dane’s already had around 50% continental genes while’s Swedes had 25%. Jordanus reported in 525 now Dane’s came from the north east (today’s sweden) and settled on Zealand. So Scandinavians divided genetically in year 300-700. While Dane’s became genetically more southernly influenced, the rest of Scandinavia remained more distinctly Scandinavian. The same story can be seen when looking at the evolvement of the Scandinavian languages, where danish moved away from the rest of the Scandinavians by southern influences. Danes have their roots in modern day Sweden, mostly in the regions of Halland, Blekinge and Scania.
@@Jonsson474 interesting , but I can hardly believe this. Jordanes is not a fully reliable source since he writes what he has heard. Similarities in genes does not show any direction. Why would present Denmark be “open” to immigration in large numbers ( there was of course interchange ) ? I can more believe that Bornholm and Scania were very close , as seen in language. Don’t forget that Rome had contact with Jutland, maybe also a common enemy in Germanic tribes.
Immigration (specifically refugees escaping the various wars the US waged in the ME and SEA). 20% of the people living in Sweden were not born here. Denmark, Finland and Norway have had VERY restrictive immigration policy that we now have started implementing. For some reason people think that when we have almost as restrictive policies as Denmark, Finland or Norway always had we have made a "hard right turn" which makes no sense.
The amount of overly liberal (for the Nations own good and long term preservation) Swedes I've seen blame the current "hard right swing" for everything from the state of the Baltic to just about anything else is kinda strange. The country is just coming back towards the centre from having been moving further and further left. It's Right of where they were, not Right of centre which is, imo, rather disingenuous of those making these claims. Swedes have always been sensibly liberal, imo. Long may that last.
@@rickybuhl3176 Well that is not true either, Finland, Denmark and Norway has been to the left of us on most issues but now we have a party that is restrictive of immigration and better on selling out everything to the Germans. Our costs for electricity is going to go though the roof because our current government decided to sell us out to the Germans that relied on cheap NG from Russia and shut down nuclear power plants and Norway that have fucked their grid for decades. I'll be voting Social Democrat next election because this corrupt government of right wing parties sucks in all ways. Oh and BTW, the Social Democrats are no longer socialists, V is no longer communist so how in the fuck have they been moving left?
Canada's landmass is considerably larger than the Nordic countries'. When comparing the density of water areas, 8.92 percent of Canada is covered by water areas. Sweden has slightly less water areas compared to overall landmass than Canada (8.69 percent). In Finland that number is 10.15 percent. Russia is second when it comes to number of lakes, but its water areas cover (only) 4.22 percent of the landmass. Regardless of all the mountains, even Norway has more water areas than Russia (5.05 percent). In Denmark that number is 2 percent. Speaking of populations, over the time number of things have effected Finland's population. There's the climate, countless wars, being ruled over, slavery, genocides, famines, emigration, high child mortality rate etc. There's E.g. a saying that Sweden will fight to the last Finn. There are over 150 000 Finns living in Sweden. Estimated 700 000 first to third generation Finns live in Sweden. In 2010 census 680 000 told that they are Finnish Americans. In 2011 census 140 000 told they are Finnish Canadians. Some videos on those: "Brief Introduction to Finnish Military History", "Kirkko ja kruunu ryöväsivät", "Karl Skartveit Fremmed blod", "HAKKA PÄLLE! Gustavian Cavalry | The Army of Gustavus Adolphus", "Isoviha-dokumenttielokuva", "Brief History of Ingria and the Ingrian Finns" and "Lasten Suomi sata vuotta". About the Nordic drinking habits and hangover cure, along with a relating sketch: "Simpsons - Kalsarikännit", "Who Drinks The Most In Scandinavia? Fins, Swedes, Danes Or Norwegians?", "Kummeli - Normipäivä / Just A Basic Day (English captioning)" and "HANGOVER CURE TEST (WTF: Welcome To Finland #15)"
I was born and raised only 30 km from the german border on the actual battlegrounds of the 1864 war. The guy in the video completely let out, that when we lost to Prussia and Austria as you said, the southern part of Denmark was oppressed for 56 years! It was forbidden by the germans to speak our language. It was forbidden to raise Dannebrog. Every street signs and names on stores were torn down and changed to german names. And in WW1, they came for our boys and men. They were forced to participate in the war on the german side. Two of my great grandfathers participated against their will. One in Russia and one in Verdon in France! Their parents were told, that if their sons weren’t to be found on pick up day, their farms were being occupied by german families and they themselves were to be chucked out into the street! Also it is incorrect that the swedish vikings went to America. They went to Russia! The danish vikings went to Greenland and by a mistake on one of their trips, they ended up in Canada and went further south to this day New York. Later on they ran over England several times. And the northern France too😊
@@marionhansen3627 It was not the danish Vikings that went to Greenland it was the Icelandic Erik Röde (original from Norway). The danes went to England. And the Viking that went to Canada was Erik Rödes son Leif Eriksson. And to make it more complicated Skåne and Halland (south west Sweden) is here seen as Danish and Bohuslän and Göteborg (west Sweden) is seen as Norwegian, so it might have been Vikings from what is now Sweden that went even if we say Danish or Norwegian Vikings
Honestly, being called Scandinavian is such a long reach for a Finn that it borders on an insult. Different language family and cultural distinctions are one thing, but while many seem to think there is some eternal brotherly bond between the peoples, Finns weren't always seen exactly as equals in the Swedish Kingdom. An old relative of mine once said: "The sh*t of Sweden tends to gutter down on Finland."
Thay's not really correct. Scandinavia is a geographical entity and you can't change that. Finland is part of the Nordic countries which is a political entity.
Then again the peoples at the western shores of Finland were closer to the "original" Swedes around Roslagen than the folks in Götaland and Scania. Like they had more in common, more trade etc.
Neither have us scanians even though we have belonged to sweden for 300 years. Treated like second class citizens and always mocking our dialect. And the ethnic cleansing of scanians is not a thing people want to talk about.
Whats always been crazy to me is the British isles has way more people with way less land Scandinavia population: 25 Million British Isles population: 76 Million
The UK have historically always been considered Europe's centre of commerce, so I think it's population growth is much more influenced by immigration over the centuries rather than availability of land. Scandinavia have played its part in Europe's history and is significant in it, but have gone relatively unnoticed in the larger scope of things, especially when compared to the British Empire.
Maybe that broach the subject in the clip - haven't seen it all yet, but Sweden has the most numerous islands of any country in the world, and I think the archipelagos are amazingly beautiful (at least in the summer :) ... it's a good mix of mountains, forrests, islands and water... is very nice wowawua! As a Swede I can say that yes - we see often see Finland as scandinavian, but not the balic countries... guess it's mostly due to similar way of life and culture whereas the baltic countries are definitely more slavic...
Yeah - I consider the Baltic countries as Scandinavia. Historically Sweden and all Baltic countries was most of the time one. In Sweden we have a lot of famous Baltic people in Sweden. Finland our beloved Brothers ❤ are of course Scandinavian. So yeah, its really a mindset what is what. 🇮🇸🇳🇴🇫🇮🇩🇰🇸🇪♥️
Scandinavia is a latin name for Skåne the most southern part of Sweden, and about the most northern part of Denmark at the time Skåne was Danish. It later became a name for our region. But regions are in our minds most of all, if you dont have Aspergers and want to mark words or letters.
@@ingegerdandersson6963 Yes but Finland is not scandinavian it's nordic (which refers to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland), scandinavian refers only to Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
There are factual errors in the film. The Germans had transit traffic to Finland Who was helped by Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union. Not Norway. They were already invaded.
Such a weird Thesis this video has. Finland, Sweden, and Norway have ballpark the same population density. The interresting question is rather why Denmark has such a high one.
Sweden has 95,700 lakes larger than 1 hectare (100x100 meters). For comparison, it can be mentioned that Finland, which is usually called the land of a hundred thousand lakes, has 56,000 lakes larger than 1 ha and Norway has 65,000 lakes larger than 1.5 ha.
Finland are not part of Scandinavia, It is part of Nordic countries yes. Scandinavia are Sweden, Norway and Denmark PERIOD.
Part of northwestern finland are actually part of scandinavia.
@@erikstenviken2652and Denmark isn’t part of the Scandinavien peninsula. It’s a bit confusing
@@erikstenviken2652 No
scandinavia is only sweden norway
Ur annoying for pointing it out and everyone else are annoying for not knowing well established facts. And then we have the most annoying people who disregard established facts and common reason by nitpicking geography nerd shit about parts of Finland. We want people to learn about us, we share more things than not. Stop being bricks.
Estonian language is also a Finno-Urgic laguage, as well as the Sami laguages
Estonia was incoporated in Sweden after the collapse of the German Teutonic order in the Baltics. Estonia found themselves squeezed between Sweden (protestant), Poland-Lithuania (catholic) and Russia (ortodox). The German nobility of Estonia opted for Sweden as their best bet and more or less willingly joined Sweden, presumably due to shared religion and the fact that not having a land connection with Sweden would grant Estonia greater autonomy.
Livonia was a region located in modern day southern Estonia and northern Latvia. It became a major battle ground area between the three empires competing over the Baltics.
Also, I am not an expert on this matter and am writing out of memory, so feel free to correct any mistakes I might have made.
You are so right about the formation of modern Germany! Its very interesting how they did it
4:24 Uppsala? No Uppsala is in Sweden not far from Stockholm.
Edit: And today Uppsala is a pretty big town/city not just a couple of houses.
I live in the middle of Sweden (norrland) I don`t think the cold is so bad .. We know that the sun is soon coming. (We have something to long for ) And the spring and autumn is beautiful and not so cold
Spot on lad - the simple answer is it's 10x the size of Denmark by area, Norway's a keel of a Mountain and Fjords - great for holiday homes by the water, not quite so great for cities or farmland to feed those cities. Wealth-wise Norway has oil for days (we won't get into Denmark giving up their share of the oil fields back in the day to them because literally drunk politicians lol) and some amazing forestry, Sweden likewise "got wood" and has the largest rare earth deposits outside China and they been mining/producing iron since the Viking age. Denmark is effectively a sandbank (or mud pit as Barbs would say) made up of the erosion from the mountains in Norway and Sweden as the ice receded and scoured it's way down, time and again. The amusing thing is once Greenland melts, probably half of Denmark will be under water - a potential reason they didn't wanna let the Americans take it over 👼
Get you with your knowledge on the Finns and Hungarians. Finland has a good deal of 'permanent snow' that Norway and Sweden also have, which culturally/lifestyle wise means they're closer since people such as the Sámi would touch the North of Sweden and Norway over a thousand or more years. All in all, you pretty much nailed it.
Final note: Skåne, Blekinge and Halland (the Southern tip of Sweden) was only ceded to them by Denmark around the 1650s - it's the original homeland of the "Danes", before they pushed most of the Angles and Jutes out towards England and the whole "Anglo-Saxon" invasion thing.
Pretty sure it was a deal with Sweden that went wrong. Norway wanted a part of Volvo for access to the oil for us, but we refused.
@@matshjalmarsson3008 To quote various online sources "Legend has it that Per Hækkerup had drunk too much whisky and thereby become overly generous with the Norwegians, who accordingly ended up with the area containing Ekofisk. He thereby deprived his fellow Danes of substantial revenues." - Don't think Sweden were involved this time.
Edit: Hækkerup was Foreign Affairs Minister, Trade Minister and Minister for Economics for Denmark through a period in the 60s and 70s.
@@rickybuhl3176 Perhaps, it was too long ago for me to remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure a deal with Volvo that went south was a part of it.
I rely on YT and other sources to an extent, but when I've been there and seen that, it kinda trumps the news outlets
@@matshjalmarsson3008 Never heard of the connection and can't find it mentioned online anywhere, nor any Swedish involvement. You're going have to show something to explain how a Swedish car manufacturer is involved in North Sea oil fields in Danish/Norwegian waters that Sweden had no involvement in for me to see any sense in it to be honest. It was during the oil crisis, so perhaps Volvo/Sweden were in different talks on a different subject around the same time but it's seemingly not got enough to do with the subject in question that any sources I can find mention it.
Edit: ..and let's be honest, if we could find a way of blaming the Swedes for it, we would lol /j
@@rickybuhl3176 It really doesn't matter, it was shown on national tv and aired on radio, but if it's not true I don't really care.
It's like ok, you want to to do stupid stuff, go ahead and learn some shit.
Finland is culturally scandinavian yes, and Estonia is close but not at the same level
The Finns once migrated from the Ural Mountains into the area of modern day Finland. That’s why the language has nothing in common with its neighbouring counties except for Estonia.
Yes, Estonia is probably a bit more like us in the Nordics than they other Baltic countries.
By land area, Sweden is bigger than Germany but the German population is 8 times larger. Reason: The same Germany is warmer and has more agricultural land.
Your knowledge about European countries is impressive! I wish more Americans were as curious about the world as you are!
Finland is not Scandinavian
Finland is on the scandinavian penninsula(fennoscandia) while denmark is not.
@@flyinghostfinansotoo5141 Nope
@@flyinghostfinansotoo5141 Finland is NOT scandinavian, yet Denmark is.
One reason for finnish population size is that Finland is between Russia and Sweden... all the wars trough out history between Swe and Rus have had some effect on finlands population as each time we get killed when some of our neighbours goes grazy
Finland was swedish for around 600 years, Im a swedish/finnish person (alot of finnish people moved to sweden). Swedish is a big part of many finnish people. "finlandssvenska"
When I read about our Nordic history, I think we in Sweden benefited from not being “anti-US” to the same extent as our neighbors. Furthermore, a big focus on English already in the first classes of school.
Well, English is a fairly recent thing. My father studied German as his second language
FInland's population has also been affected quite a lot by the multiple famines and raids from Russia throughout the years. In the famine of 1695-1697 roughly 150,000 people died in Finland. In the 1866-1869 famine another circa 154,000-170,000 people died in Finland (about 8.6% of the population), and in those year more people died than born. There was frost and snow even into June.
22:19: Talk Swedish famine and not mention Finnish famines?
Sweden did NOT let Germans traverse Sweden to invade NORWAY. Sweden did however let German soldiers in Norway traverse Sweden to invade USSR, Sweden's Arch Enemy. And the decision to to that was very controversial. Also, invading Norway through Sweden would just be stupid, when you could do it through Denmark and the coastline, which IS what Gemrnay did. The whole reason for invading Denmark was to invade Norway and secure the port of Narvik.
Sweden actually have more lakes than finland, but finland have many for their small size
Sweden has 96000 lakes, more than Finland.
This was a random hit and miss video. There are so many factual errors it’s become pointless.
Sweden has more lakes than Finland.
Canada is nr2 largest after russia
epoch, unit of geological time during which a rock series is deposited. Source: google
Here's a fact about Finland.
On average, Finland gainst about 1 square meter of new land every 5 seconds. True story. (Well Sweden and Norway grow as well)
Oh yea, Finns also suffered from massive famines (like Ireland). Oh and Russians killed a bunch of Finns and took Finns as slaves and sold some in the Persian slave markets. Bet you didn't know that.
Im sorry but that video is SO massively incorrect! Scanian people where danes during the Viking age, not swedish
What do you mean? Neither Sweden or Denmark existed in the viking age but people from both regions were vikings and travelled?
Oh you are so incorrect. There was no Scanian tribe during the short period of what is to referred to the Viking era. Besides, the tribe of the Danes originally came from modern day Sweden.
@@Jonsson474 Danes came from Sweden ? In what dream ?
@@paulingvar Well you need to read up about history. Genetics show that Dane’s migrated south east from what is now Sweden to Denmark around AD 300. Around this time, Danes were genetically homogeneous to other Scandinavian tribes. Later in Germanic Iron Age, around year 500, Danes became recipients from genetic influences from the south (today’s Poland to the Black Sea) and became distinctly different. Around Viking age, Dane’s already had around 50% continental genes while’s Swedes had 25%. Jordanus reported in 525 now Dane’s came from the north east (today’s sweden) and settled on Zealand. So Scandinavians divided genetically in year 300-700. While Dane’s became genetically more southernly influenced, the rest of Scandinavia remained more distinctly Scandinavian. The same story can be seen when looking at the evolvement of the Scandinavian languages, where danish moved away from the rest of the Scandinavians by southern influences. Danes have their roots in modern day Sweden, mostly in the regions of Halland, Blekinge and Scania.
@@Jonsson474 interesting , but I can hardly believe this. Jordanes is not a fully reliable source since he writes what he has heard. Similarities in genes does not show any direction. Why would present Denmark be “open” to immigration in large numbers ( there was of course interchange ) ? I can more believe that Bornholm and Scania were very close , as seen in language.
Don’t forget that Rome had contact with Jutland, maybe also a common enemy in Germanic tribes.
Immigration (specifically refugees escaping the various wars the US waged in the ME and SEA). 20% of the people living in Sweden were not born here.
Denmark, Finland and Norway have had VERY restrictive immigration policy that we now have started implementing. For some reason people think that when we have almost as restrictive policies as Denmark, Finland or Norway always had we have made a "hard right turn" which makes no sense.
The amount of overly liberal (for the Nations own good and long term preservation) Swedes I've seen blame the current "hard right swing" for everything from the state of the Baltic to just about anything else is kinda strange. The country is just coming back towards the centre from having been moving further and further left. It's Right of where they were, not Right of centre which is, imo, rather disingenuous of those making these claims. Swedes have always been sensibly liberal, imo. Long may that last.
@@rickybuhl3176 Well that is not true either, Finland, Denmark and Norway has been to the left of us on most issues but now we have a party that is restrictive of immigration and better on selling out everything to the Germans.
Our costs for electricity is going to go though the roof because our current government decided to sell us out to the Germans that relied on cheap NG from Russia and shut down nuclear power plants and Norway that have fucked their grid for decades.
I'll be voting Social Democrat next election because this corrupt government of right wing parties sucks in all ways.
Oh and BTW, the Social Democrats are no longer socialists, V is no longer communist so how in the fuck have they been moving left?
@@michaelmay5453 the earlier immigration were to get workers, so that was something the right wanted.
@@ingegerdandersson6963 Yeah, that was in the 1960's. We haven't had that problem since 1968.
Canada's landmass is considerably larger than the Nordic countries'. When comparing the density of water areas, 8.92 percent of Canada is covered by water areas. Sweden has slightly less water areas compared to overall landmass than Canada (8.69 percent). In Finland that number is 10.15 percent. Russia is second when it comes to number of lakes, but its water areas cover (only) 4.22 percent of the landmass. Regardless of all the mountains, even Norway has more water areas than Russia (5.05 percent). In Denmark that number is 2 percent.
Speaking of populations, over the time number of things have effected Finland's population. There's the climate, countless wars, being ruled over, slavery, genocides, famines, emigration, high child mortality rate etc. There's E.g. a saying that Sweden will fight to the last Finn. There are over 150 000 Finns living in Sweden. Estimated 700 000 first to third generation Finns live in Sweden. In 2010 census 680 000 told that they are Finnish Americans. In 2011 census 140 000 told they are Finnish Canadians. Some videos on those: "Brief Introduction to Finnish Military History", "Kirkko ja kruunu ryöväsivät", "Karl Skartveit Fremmed blod", "HAKKA PÄLLE! Gustavian Cavalry | The Army of Gustavus Adolphus", "Isoviha-dokumenttielokuva", "Brief History of Ingria and the Ingrian Finns" and "Lasten Suomi sata vuotta".
About the Nordic drinking habits and hangover cure, along with a relating sketch: "Simpsons - Kalsarikännit", "Who Drinks The Most In Scandinavia? Fins, Swedes, Danes Or Norwegians?", "Kummeli - Normipäivä / Just A Basic Day (English captioning)" and "HANGOVER CURE TEST (WTF: Welcome To Finland #15)"
I was born and raised only 30 km from the german border on the actual battlegrounds of the 1864 war. The guy in the video completely let out, that when we lost to Prussia and Austria as you said, the southern part of Denmark was oppressed for 56 years! It was forbidden by the germans to speak our language. It was forbidden to raise Dannebrog. Every street signs and names on stores were torn down and changed to german names. And in WW1, they came for our boys and men. They were forced to participate in the war on the german side. Two of my great grandfathers participated against their will. One in Russia and one in Verdon in France! Their parents were told, that if their sons weren’t to be found on pick up day, their farms were being occupied by german families and they themselves were to be chucked out into the street!
Also it is incorrect that the swedish vikings went to America. They went to Russia! The danish vikings went to Greenland and by a mistake on one of their trips, they ended up in Canada and went further south to this day New York. Later on they ran over England several times. And the northern France too😊
@@marionhansen3627 It was not the danish Vikings that went to Greenland it was the Icelandic Erik Röde (original from Norway). The danes went to England. And the Viking that went to Canada was Erik Rödes son Leif Eriksson. And to make it more complicated Skåne and Halland (south west Sweden) is here seen as Danish and Bohuslän and Göteborg (west Sweden) is seen as Norwegian, so it might have been Vikings from what is now Sweden that went even if we say Danish or Norwegian Vikings
Finland isn't Scandinavian.
Honestly, being called Scandinavian is such a long reach for a Finn that it borders on an insult. Different language family and cultural distinctions are one thing, but while many seem to think there is some eternal brotherly bond between the peoples, Finns weren't always seen exactly as equals in the Swedish Kingdom. An old relative of mine once said: "The sh*t of Sweden tends to gutter down on Finland."
Thay's not really correct. Scandinavia is a geographical entity and you can't change that. Finland is part of the Nordic countries which is a political entity.
Should have used fennoscandia in the video
Then again the peoples at the western shores of Finland were closer to the "original" Swedes around Roslagen than the folks in Götaland and Scania. Like they had more in common, more trade etc.
Neither have us scanians even though we have belonged to sweden for 300 years. Treated like second class citizens and always mocking our dialect. And the ethnic cleansing of scanians is not a thing people want to talk about.
@@RobinAsp77 we just can’t understand you. 😂
because we are the best *copium*
Whats always been crazy to me is the British isles has way more people with way less land
Scandinavia population: 25 Million
British Isles population: 76 Million
The UK have historically always been considered Europe's centre of commerce, so I think it's population growth is much more influenced by immigration over the centuries rather than availability of land. Scandinavia have played its part in Europe's history and is significant in it, but have gone relatively unnoticed in the larger scope of things, especially when compared to the British Empire.
Maybe that broach the subject in the clip - haven't seen it all yet, but Sweden has the most numerous islands of any country in the world, and I think the archipelagos are amazingly beautiful (at least in the summer :) ... it's a good mix of mountains, forrests, islands and water... is very nice wowawua! As a Swede I can say that yes - we see often see Finland as scandinavian, but not the balic countries... guess it's mostly due to similar way of life and culture whereas the baltic countries are definitely more slavic...
Yeah - I consider the Baltic countries as Scandinavia. Historically Sweden and all Baltic countries was most of the time one. In Sweden we have a lot of famous Baltic people in Sweden. Finland our beloved Brothers ❤ are of course Scandinavian. So yeah, its really a mindset what is what. 🇮🇸🇳🇴🇫🇮🇩🇰🇸🇪♥️
Scandinavia is a latin name for Skåne the most southern part of Sweden, and about the most northern part of Denmark at the time Skåne was Danish. It later became a name for our region. But regions are in our minds most of all, if you dont have Aspergers and want to mark words or letters.
Finland not belong to Scandinvian
Finland is actually Baltic
Its not considered a baltic country neither is Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland and Russia that is around the Baltic sea.
@@ingegerdandersson6963 Finland is not Scandinavian that s for sure ..
@@AgeCobra no but its a part of the Scandinavian peninsula
@@ingegerdandersson6963 No
@@ingegerdandersson6963 Yes but Finland is not scandinavian it's nordic (which refers to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland), scandinavian refers only to Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
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