Scandinavia
scan·di·na·via
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a group of culturally related countries in northern Europe; Finland and Iceland are sometimes considered Scandinavian
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Borrowed from Latin Scandināvia, from Proto-Germanic *Skadinawjō, the source also of Old English Sċedeniġ and Old Norse Skáney > Swedish Skåne (“southern tip of Sweden, Scania”).
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