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  2. Nordic countries - Wikipedia

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    Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have for example experienced constant and large excess exports in recent years. Iceland is the only country which has balance of payments deficits as of 2011. At the same time, unemployment is low in most of the Nordic countries compared with the rest of Europe.

  3. Scandinavia - Wikipedia

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    People from the Nordic world beyond Norway, Denmark and Sweden may be offended at being either included in or excluded from the category of "Scandinavia". [34] Nordic countries is used unambiguously for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, including their associated territories Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the Åland Islands. [35]

  4. Nordic model - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, in 2018, collective bargaining coverage was 90% in Iceland, 88.8% in Finland (2017), 88% in Sweden, 82% in Denmark, and 69% in Norway; in comparison collective bargaining coverage was 54% in Germany and 11.7% in the United States. [25] The lower union density in Norway is mainly explained by the absence of a Ghent system since ...

  5. Scandinavian Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    The Scandinavian Peninsula [1] is located in Northern Europe, and roughly comprises the mainlands of Sweden, Norway and the northwestern area of Finland.. The name of the peninsula is derived from the term Scandinavia, the cultural region of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

  6. Comparison of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish - Wikipedia

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    Until 1811 the University of Copenhagen had been the only university of Denmark-Norway, and educated Norwegians thus spent formative years in Denmark. When Norway's university was founded in 1811 it built on and maintained close ties to a Danish academic tradition, thereby continuing the influence of Danish among elites. The most recent reforms ...

  7. Finland–Sweden relations - Wikipedia

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    On a larger scale, both Finland and Sweden also share a special relationship with the other Nordic countries: Denmark, Iceland and Norway, and these five countries are members of the Nordic Council. Both countries are full members of Council of Europe , Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe , the European Union and NATO .

  8. Climate of the Nordic countries - Wikipedia

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    The wintery Lapporten mountain pass in Lappland, Sweden. The climate of the Nordic countries is that of a region in Northern Europe that consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories, which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland.

  9. Denmark–Norway relations - Wikipedia

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    The Kalmar Union is a historiographical term meaning a series of personal unions that united the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway (with Iceland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Shetland, and Orkney), and Sweden (including Finland) under a single monarch, though intermittently and with a population less than 3,000,000.