Scandinavia is a European region north of the Baltic Sea. At almost 1.2 million square kilometres it is one of the largest regions in Europe, but home to only around 24 million people, accounting for a mere 4% of the population of Europe.
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Browse the guide to Scandinavia including information on countries, cities, getting to and getting around Scandinavia, and things to see, do, eat and drink.
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Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark and what a million Danes call home. This "friendly old girl of a town" is big enough to be a metropolis with shopping, culture and nightlife par excellence, yet still small enough to be intimate, safe and easy to navigate.
Stockholm is the capital and largest city of Sweden, with nearly 2 million inhabitants within its vicinities.
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Norway is the westernmost, northernmost — and in fact the easternmost — of the three Scandinavian countries.
Denmark is a country in Scandinavia. The main part of it is Jutland, a peninsula north of Germany, but also with a number of islands, including the two major ones, Zealand and Funen in the Baltic Sea between Jutland and Sweden.
Finland is in Northern Europe and has borders with Russia to the east, Norway to the north, and Sweden to the west.
Iceland, is a mountainous island nation in the north Atlantic Ocean, located between Europe and North America.
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