Scandinavia

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Scandinavia is a region in northern Europe that includes Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Finland is often considered a Scandinavian country in common English usage, and Iceland and the Faroe Islands are sometimes also included.

Scandinavia extends to north of the arctic circle, but has relatively mild weather for its latitude due to the Gulf Stream. Much of the Scandinavian mountains have alpine tundra climate. There are many lakes and moraines, legacies of an ice age about 10,000 years ago. The northern regions of Scandinavia are home to the indigenous Sami people.

Scandinavia has, despite many wars over the years since the formation of modern nation-states in the 10th century, been politically and culturally close. The constellations and alliances have shifted over the centuries however. For all of the 15th century, Scandinavia was united in the Kalmar Union. In the 19th century a new political union was proposed, but it did not take place when Denmark was denied key military support in a conflict with Prussia. Today, the nations cooperate mainly in the European Union or the Nordic Council. The Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish languages form a dialect continuum and are known as the Scandinavian languages—all of which share a degree of mutual intelligibility with each other.

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Since the Quiet October incident in DRAW Your Own Story 6, Norway, Sweden and Finland have been part of Thorvald of Lym's Eastern Union. DYOS 10 saw Denmark being annexed to the Eastern Union as a result of a cartographical error in the Treaty of Paris.