Scandinavia | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-01-01

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia


00:00:58 1 Toponymy
00:02:42 2 Terminology and use
00:05:15 2.1 Societal and tourism promotional organizations
00:06:42 3 Use of "Nordic countries" vs. "Scandinavia"
00:12:02 3.1 Pliny the Elder's descriptions
00:15:12 3.2 Germanic reconstruction
00:16:28 3.3 Sami etymology
00:17:54 3.4 Other etymologies
00:18:52 4 Geography
00:20:36 5 Languages in Scandinavia
00:21:33 5.1 North Germanic languages
00:24:32 5.2 Finnish
00:26:35 5.3 Sami languages
00:27:30 6 History
00:30:26 6.1 Scandinavian unions
00:32:44 7 Political
00:34:58 8 See also



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SUMMARY
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Scandinavia ( SKAN-dih-NAY-vee-ə) is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties. The majority national languages of the region, and their many dialects, belong to the Scandinavian dialect continuum, and are mutually intelligible North Germanic languages. The term Scandinavia in local usage covers the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. However, in English usage, the term also sometimes refers to the Scandinavian Peninsula, or to the broader region including Finland and Iceland, which is always known locally as the Nordic countries.While part of the Nordic countries, the remote Norwegian islands of Svalbard and Jan Mayen are not in Scandinavia, nor is Greenland, a constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark. The Faroe Islands are sometimes included.