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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Icewolf @ Jun 18 2007, 10:04 AM) [snapback]294994[/snapback]</div>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mighty Midget @ Jun 18 2007, 11:31 AM) [snapback]294963[/snapback]

Fiinns are not Scandinavians

BTW: If there are any Swedes here: Give us back Jâmtland and Hârjedalen :P [/b]

I found infomation that Finland just geographically doesn't belong to Scandinavia. Politically, ethymologically and historically they can be subsumed with Danmark, Finland and the Faroer Islands.

But you're the Nordman in here, Midget.
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I wanted to wait for Mighty's statement, but I'll add mine too. Actually, it's the opposite. Geographically Finland belongs to Scandinavia. But in terms of language, culture and even ethnically, Finns differ greatly from their neighbours. Finnish is not even an Indo-European language making their only linguistic friends in Europe the Hungarians and the Estonians.