The native languages spoken of Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese are Germanic languages with non-Germanic languages being Finnish, Greenlandic and several variations of the Sami language. The Finnish language is part of the Finnic-Uralic group and shares common elements with Hungarian and a close affinity with Estonian. The main religion is Lutheran Christianity.
The Nordic Region and their inhabitants are very homogenous in the way they live, their way of using their languages, their historic background and even their social structure. These Nordic countries each have their own governments but co-operate in the Nordic Council.
For many people, the Nordics are synonymous with Scandinavia but, technically speaking, Scandinavia is only Denmark, Norway and Sweden, though the Scandinavian Peninsula covers mainland Norway, Sweden and the northernmost part of Finland.
<p>The native languages spoken of Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese are Germanic languages with non-Germanic languages being Finnish, Greenlandic and several variations of the Sami language. The Finnish language is part of the Finnic-Uralic group and shares common elements with Hungarian and a close affinity with Estonian. The main religion is Lutheran Christianity.</p>
<p>The Nordic Region and their inhabitants are very homogenous in the way they live, their way of using their languages, their historic background and even their social structure. These Nordic countries each have their own governments but co-operate in the Nordic Council.</p>
<p>For many people, the Nordics are synonymous with <a title="Scandinavia holiday packages" href="https://www.baltictravelcompany.com/scandinavia/">Scandinavia</a> but, technically speaking, Scandinavia is only Denmark, Norway and Sweden, though the Scandinavian Peninsula covers mainland Norway, Sweden and the northernmost part of Finland.</p>
The Nordics cover appx. 3.4 million square kilometers and the area is considered the 7th largest in the world, though this includes many uninhabitable icecaps and glaciers as approximately half of that. The population is approximately 27 Million. The Nordic races consistently top numerous measurements of economic performance, competitiveness, civil liberties and rights, equality, education and quality of life such as life expectancy and human development.
The Nordic countries mostly share the same social structure model and economy, with a market economy model combined with strong labour unions and an extensive welfare sector available through high taxes. Thus, there is a high degree of income redistribution and limited social unrest due to this, though the crisis in Syria and conflicts elsewhere have led to an increase in immigration, causing some pressure on the welfare system and the homogenous population.
The area is linguistically heterogeneous. Including three unrelated language groups, though the common linguistic heritage is one of the factors constituting the Nordic identity. The North Germanic languages, being Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, are mutually intelligible and those languages are taught throughout, with, for example, Swedish being mandatory in Finland, Danish in Greenland and the Faroes and, to some extent, the same in Iceland, due to Iceland being under the Danish Realm ( Rigsfellesskabet ) up till 1918. Finnic and Sami are quite different from the others, being branches of the Uralic languages, spoken in Finland and Northern Norway and Sweden, respectively, and Greenlandic, an Eskimo - Aleut language, spoken in Greenland.
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