This is much like the Maritime Provinces:
The Canadian Maritimes are:
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island.
Atlantic Canada is:
The Maritimes + Newfoundland and Labrador (new official name)
Doug
On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 11:43 AM, Jan S. Krogh wrote:
> Finland is not situated on the Scandinavian peninsula; neither is the
> main population of Scandinavian origin.
> Iceland is mainly populated by Scandinavians and [therefor] speaking a
> Scandinavian language.
> Scandinavia + Finland = the Nordic countries (
> http://www.lysator.liu.se/nordic/%c2%a0)
>
> Jan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francisco <xuax@...> [mailto:xuax@...]
> Sent: 23. februar 2003 21:24
>
> Outside Scandinavia all the Nordic Countries (Iceland, Norway,
> Sweden, Finland and Denmark) are usually refered to also as
> Scandinavian countries, despite this isn't strictly geographically
> correct.
> Anyway, in this case, Finland is also a Scandinavian republic.
> By the other hand, if you call Scandinavia just the geographic
> region, then Iceland is not a Scandinavian country.
> So, in either option Jan's statement seems to be incorrect. Or am I
> missing something?
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