10 Amazing Facts of Scandinavian Countries

The Scandinavia countries are the name given to the group of three European countries (Norway, Sweden, and Denmark) on the basis of common historical and cultural-linguistic heritage. The term Scandinavia is usually used as a cultural term, but in English usage, it is occasionally confused with the geographical term Scandinavian Peninsula, which took its name from the cultural-linguistic concept.

10 amazing facts of Scandinavian Countries

1. The mountain range that divides the Scandinavian Peninsula is called the "Scands"
2. Norway, Denmark and Sweden are ranked first, second and third place respectively on the top of the global index in the eight categories: economy, education, entrepreneurship & opportunity, governance, health, personal freedom, safety & security and social capital.
3. These countries were the first who pour the colour of democracy and capitalism in the European Society.
4. They have amazing culture of cooperation and less competitive which can be seen by comparing the relationship between private companies and the government, and the relationship between employees and employers.
5. Sweden is one of the Scandevian country which the world's best recyclers, and Stockholm hosts the world's second-largest hydrothermal cooling system.
6. Norway is another country from the family of scandevian country which has the world’s deepest underwater tunnel at 287 meters deep.
7. The Flag of Denmark is the world’s oldest flag in the world that was adopted in AD 1219 and also still in use by independent nation.
8. Two language groups have coexisted on the Scandinavian peninsula since prehistory—the North Germanic languages (Scandinavian languages) and the Sami languages. The majority languages on the peninsula, Swedish and Norwegian, are today, along with Danish, classified as Continental Scandinavian.
9. An excellent social safety-net with features like universal healthcare, universal unemployment-insurance, universal child-support and universal free access to education at all levels.
10. People of this region have liberal attitude to sexuality. No virginity-worship, indeed most people here would probably consider it a -negative- to marry as a virgin.

The use of "Scandinavia" as a convenient general term for Denmark, Norway and Sweden is fairly recent. According to some historians, it was adopted and introduced in the eighteenth century, at a time when the ideas about a common heritage started to appear and develop into early literary and linguistic Scandinavism. Before this time, the term "Scandinavia" was familiar mainly to classical scholars through Pliny the Elder's writings and was used vaguely for Scania and the southern region of the peninsula.

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