Geographical peninsula in Europe
Fennoscandia (Finnish ,Swedish andNorwegian :Fennoskandia ;Russian :Фенноскандия ,romanized : Fennoskandiya Fenno-Scandinavia ,[ 1] Fennoscandian Peninsula , is apeninsula in Europe which includes theScandinavian andKola peninsulas, mainlandFinland , andKarelia .[ 2] mainlands of Finland,Norway andSweden ,[ 3] Murmansk Oblast , theRepublic of Karelia , and parts of northernLeningrad Oblast in Russia.
Its name comes from the Latin wordsFennia (Finland) andScandia (Scandinavia).[ 4] Wilhelm Ramsay in 1898.[ 5] bedrock isArchean granite andgneiss with very littlelimestone , in contrast to adjacent areas in Europe.
In biology, the term is often limited to Norway, Sweden and Finland. Fennoscandia is not a distinctbiogeographical region .[ 6]
Politics and culture [ edit ] The term is sometimes used to refer to a cultural or political grouping of Finland with theScandinavian countries of Sweden, Norway and Denmark.[ 7] Nordic region also encompassesIceland , as well as theautonomous territories ofÅland , theFaroe Islands andGreenland .[ 8]
Baltoscandia – Geopolitical conceptCap of the North – Region in Northern EuropePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Scandinavia – Subregion of northern EuropeSápmi – Sámi cultural region of Fennoscandia^ Hansen, Lars Ivar; Olsen, Björnar (2013).Hunters in Transition . Brill Academic Publishers. p. 10.ISBN 978-90-04-25254-7 ^ Cummings, Vicki; Jordan, Peter;Zvelebil, Marek , eds. (2014).The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers . Oxford; New York:Oxford University Press . p. 838. ^ Lavsund, Sten; Nygren, Tuire; Solberg, Erling (2003)."Status of moose populations and challenges to moose management in Fennoscandia" .Alces . Archived fromthe original on 6 March 2007. ^ "Fennoscandia [fen′ō skan′dē ə]" .Your Dictionary . LoveToKnow, Corp.Archived from the original on 21 October 2007. Retrieved20 April 2015 .^ De Geer, Sten (1928)."Das geologische Fennoskandia und das geographische Baltoskandia" [The geological Fennoscandia and the geographical Baltoscandia](PDF) .Geografiska Annaler 10 . Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography:119– 139.OCLC 604361828 .Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 April 2018. Retrieved22 April 2018 .^ Frafjord, Karl (30 November 2025),"Fennoskandia" ,Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian), retrieved16 December 2025 ^ "Fennoscandia, n." .Oxford English Dictionary Online (2nd ed.). Oxford:Oxford University Press . December 2019.Archived from the original on 28 July 2020. Retrieved10 February 2020 .^ "Facts about the Nordic countries" .Nordic Co-operation . Retrieved16 December 2025 .Ramsay, W. (1898). "Über die Geologische Entwicklung der Halbinsel Kola in der Quartärzeit".Fennia 16(1), p. 151
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