Why Don't Sweden and Finland Touch the Arctic Ocean? 

Give up geography videos. You are doing a very poor job

Finland used to have access to arctic ocean, before Russia stole it...

War declared to Ukraine, not on Ukraine. Also, your map is incorrect, Ruzzia doesn’t own Crimea

Finnish has quite a lot of loan words from Swedish but other than that no

If fact does any European country have linguistic similarities with Finland?

@@softballm1991 Estonian and Finnish are very closely related, Hungarian is more distant but still in the same Finno-Ugric branch

Because of a long common history Finnish and Swedish alphabets are identical comprising twenty-nine letters including 3 vovels after Z: Å, Ä and Ö.

@@lucone2937 Finnish doesn't use the letter Å though, and I don't think the alphabet really tells anything useful about the language itself anyway since it's pretty arbitrary and doesn't determine how the letters sound in speech

Well, yes and no. Finland *had* a coast at the White Sea 1920-1947, but the Soviet Union stole it, and Sweden *tried* to get a coast there back when they were one.

A simple answer is an unexplored question.

Well that's mostly true for most borders, but to be fair sometimes it's funny to look at the maps and see some weird borderlines.

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@@geopolipedia2956 You're both wrong. The Scandinavian peninsula is all of Sweden and Norway with a small part of Northwestern Finland included. Fennoscandia is all of Finland, Norway, Sweden, the Kola peninsula and Russian controlled Karelia. The area you have highlighted is just Norway, Sweden and Finland, they don't have a group name that doesn't include some other countries, or parts of Russia.

@@Jo-Heike bruh

Finland 🇫🇮 is a Nordic country country with Sweden 🇸🇪 Norway 🇸🇯 Denmark 🇩🇰 and Iceland 🇦🇽 They are all members of Nordic council and they all are prosperous countries with high standard of living.

"Finland is not part of the Scandinavian peninsula." The video is about Geography. Surely Finland is part of the Scandinavian peninsula, because part of the country is clearly inside it, isn't it? Denmark is not in Scandinavian peninsula, but it is part of Scandinavia. Part of Finland is in Scandinavian peninsula, but Finland is not in Scandinavia. Yes, the terms can be confusing.

@@dmasters5438 Finland is a Nordic country. It is not on the Scandanavian peninsula and is generally not considered Scandanavian.

You are right indeed, @iksRoald ! If he wanted to illustrate the Scandinavian peninsula on the map, he could draw a line from the northern tip of the gulf of Bothnia north-north-east to around the point where the Russo-Norwegian border meets the sea. (A small part of Finland would fall inside Scandinavia, but the political boundary is close to this line, so we don't really make a distinction.) If he wanted to illustrate the Fenno-Scandia region, which is more of a political concept, he could just highlight Norway, Sweden and Finland on the map. This concept could also be construed as its own peninsula, in which case he could draw a line from the Gulf of Finland around Vyborg to the White Sea, but this then includes some parts of Russia including the whole Kola peninsula.

It's true that Finland isn't part of Scandinavia. Finland and Iceland is part of Nordic. Norway, Sweden and Denmark is part of both.

its hard to collect taxes on someone that lives on the OTHER SIDE of a mountain, i love norway 17 maj and all but damn those scubadiving-goat-people are hard to talk to unless you yoodle if you are in the north kek.

No, the Norway/Sweden border is based on which ocean their rivers drain into

the ocean and waterways were the major metods of transportation in pre-industrial times, which would also bind communties closer together; also do not forget the harsh winters that would make land-transport harder

@T.Berg Which is dictated largely by the mountain chain. Also, Norway borders 2 oceans.

@Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi Water based transport is harder when the waterways are frozen.

It's amusing that you correct the RU-vidr for sloppy work and he "likes" your comment without saying anything or correcting the video. Wow.

@@RobespierreThePoof It's nothing new that RU-vid videos have wrong facts. I see it often on other channels too. Rule #1. Don't trust everything you see on RU-vid including fake restoration videos and fake staged animal rescue channels.

The author mentions the gulf of Bohemia instead of Bothnia. What ignorance! Sloppy work.

Yes, he said "Bohemia" and not "Bothnia".

😂 True, I've stopped watching at 2:20

The narration claims that all Sweden's three cities are on the Gulf of Bothnia, while the map correctly shows that they are not. And this video is supposed to be about geography.

Stopped watching at that point as I was just too irritated. Dude, your OWN MAP clearly shows that what you've just said is nonsense!

A very american dude who doesn't care

Everything is not wrong in this video.

This is the geography version of HAI's toki pona video. Barely any research done, got the pronunciations all wrong, and gives everyone headaches & nightmares everytime we think about it.

No, Sweden and Norway are not divided by a mountain range. Most of the border are forest in the low land. Most of the Scandinavian mountain range are within the country of Norway.

@@Lindeberg73 of course you are right most of the mountains are in Norway. What I meant was that the countries were settled along either coast, and the mountains effectively separated the areas that were settled. Forests were probably just as big of an obstacle if you wanted to cross the peninsula from east to west. The question in the video is why Sweden doesn't reach all the way to the sea in the north, and that's what I tried to answer.

​@@Lindeberg73 It depends on where you look, if you look at the Norwegian Nordland county, you'll see that the mountains do in fact separate the countries, a little fun fact is that the border was made with the rivers in mind, so that Norwegian rivers would flow towards the Atlantic and Swedish rivers flow towards Bothnia. You'll also notice that almost as soon as the mountain range ends, suddenly Norway goes a bit further inland before going out towards the ocean again and ends, this area is pretty flat tundra, which is why it was easier to go inland and claim lands. While we claimed the flat area with nothing on it, the Swedes / Finns claimed the Enare area which contains a large lake. Also there was a small point in time where Norway had the entire Kola Peninsula, but that's really long ago.

Even if you dont see big mountains you have a divider how the water flows either to the west or the east. Thats the mountain range Scandia.

Watershed divides are used to define borders all around the world. The reason Brazil extends so far inland from the Atlantic Ocean as that all of the rivers within that country flow into the Atlantic. If a drop of rain falls on an area and begins its journey into the Amazon River, that area belongs to Brazil.

This.

It's very strange that finnish people learn Swedish and we Sweds don't learn finnish. I feel like if they learn our language, we should do the same.

@@pontus3018 It isn't strange. Finland was a Swedish colony, not vice versa. Because of that you have remnants of this in this form today. In the north you have meänkieli and is a recognized language, just like sami (both are in active use). But you have to go to the north parts of course.

Lol I’m from the US and never been to Scandinavia but what you’re describing is the same way many Americans think Canadians are lmao many of us think Canadians are fighting off polar bears daily when the truth is most Canadians never even seen a polar bear irl

you should hear some of the things americans think about canada.

lol im from skåne and this is very true

i mean, the only time i visited Sweden it was snowing and at 2pm there was already no sun as a Portuguese this was a really insane experience for me

@@yousandro1999 Of course it does snow in the winter, and the further north you get, the more likely it is that there will actually be snow on the ground. In the southern parts of Sweden, especially nowadays, snow has become something of a rarity. Our winters are mostly just wet and cold. The same with the sunlight, Sweden is quite stretched, so in the most northern parts of the country they indeed have almost polar nights, here in the southern parts it's just dark early, but you can still see sunlight on the short days. But - during summer they instead enjoy midnight sun up north, and here in the south sun sets just very swiftly. The variations are quite big, both depending on the season and the location. My original comment was more a remark on the general idea that the Nordic countries would be some icy kingdom à la Disney's Frozen with eternal winter. We DO have summer too! AND spring and autumn! :D

Since you said A, say B. The current Pechenga (former Petsamo) was founded in the 16th century. Since that time, he began to enter the territory of the Russian state. Sometimes the Swedes came there and razed everything to the ground. In the Russian Empire, this territory was part of the Arkhangelsk province. In 1921, Mannerheim declared war on the USSR that had just begun to exist and captured Pechenga, giving it the name Petsamo. Prior to this, Pechenga had never been considered Finnish lands. The Finns lost these lands 23 years later, in 1944. Everything, just the facts. This settlement was Finnish for 23 years out of 500, it was the Finns who occupied this territory and subsequently, despite the help of the Big Brother of the Finns (Nazis), they lost it. Learn history so you don't look stupid, have a great week everyone!

​@@user-kl2dw3uv7ePetsamo has been populated by kvens and samis originally which are related to finns not russians. Also finns build almost everything in Petsamo and also populated it until 1944. Russians came to petsamo in 1944 they definetly arent the original owners pf petsamo. Please learn some history.

@@PrinceOfTaliban Since I myself have Finno-Ugric roots, I probably know what I’m talking about. I’ll tell you a secret, the Sami, Finno-Ugrians and Estonians live not only in Finland. Russians are those who live on the territory of Russia, and not some isolated nation. I'm glad I expanded your horizons, don't thank me.

@@user-kl2dw3uv7e Russians are slavs not finno-ugric. Kvens are also directly related to finns they are baltic-finnic people. If petsamo was created by finnic people, lived by finnic people why should russia rule it. I can tell you that salvic people populated petsamo from 1944 while finns had build everything ready for them.

@@PrinceOfTaliban Here's a simple example: Americans. These are the masters of the Finns, if anything. You may be of Chinese, Kenyan, Latvian or Tumba-Yumba origin, but if you have a US passport, then you will be considered an American. It's the same with Russia.

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Riga is actually the capital of Latvia and the capital of Estonia is Tallinna. And I didn't even know what Åland is in English and I didn't even thought of it. If yesterday someone had asked me what is Åland in English I'd probably said Ahvenanmaa (witch is Åland in Finnish). Of course I knew that Åland is Åland in Swedis

theres no such thing as nordic languages. Finnish is a completely diff group from other nordic languages. Slavic languages are closer to Scandinavian languages than Finnish

@@geopolipedia2956 Not likely, your geography skills are poor if I'm honest

I was told by someone that everything east of Denmark is basically the Baltic Sea, including Gulf of Finland and whatever else. I'd like a clarification - is Baltic Sea separate from things like Gulf of Finland or Bay of Bothnia - or are things like Gulf of Finland and Bay of Bothnia things which are under the bigger sea called the Baltic Sea? I'd really love a clarification, because in school we never even were told about the Baltic Sea basically existing (we probably were but I can't remember) - so it was weird for me to be told that Finland was in the shore of Baltic Sea. My reaction was like: I thought the Baltic Sea was down there in South, not over here on the shores of Finland.

Exactly.

I thought no one else had noticed - it's weird.

He also seems to think Russia declared war on Ukraine. That wouldn't exactly fit Russia's "special military operation" narrative.

All Russia does is deport people from their own country until they invade it

Who is Russia?

@@peterebel7899 My bad. I guess I should’ve said Soviet Union.

I would like to correct the author of this video. Petsamo, this area was captured by Finland from the civil war-torn Russia. It is enough to look at the map of Finland as part of the Russian Empire and already an independent country. It is a pity that some people, for the sake of their political preferences, mislead the public.

@@Krym_rus Russki You are telling nonsense! the USSR conquered vast areas from Finland and gave back just a little part. You want this part again? When will you give back all the areas to Finland you had criminally stolen some years ago?

honestly Norges triggered me more for some reason. Never heard it before lol

Norge is the name of Norway in Norwegian and Swedish lol

Why this ? I mean by geography Danes aren't Scandinvia either, but somehow these for countries are always grouped together with having similiar climate, culture, economy. It maybe just to not let Finland stand alone. Right now Finland and Sweden want to join Nato, so they do things together.

@@holger_p it's because north of finland, lappland is part of Scandinavia

@@Bubajumba This doesn't tell me anything what the term scandinvia means to Swedes. Topic was, it's their tender spot to misuse the word. It's like discussing wheter france is western europe or central europe. It's completly meaningless. Both is OK, nobody cares.

Good point. Viipuri/Vyborg & the Karelian Isthmus were/are Finnish territory. That is something that annoys me too - brodcasters using modern borders willy nilly for historical episodes without any explanation.

In 1940-1944 finland had only petsamo so it was actually the correct map

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@@geopolipedia2956 Factual errors like the ones in this video are exactly why I will NOT be subscribing.

@kaius3351 Keep Crying 😭 LOOSER 🤡

To be honest, now that Russia has spent two years trying to bully everyone, we are likely to see some kind of forced reparations, especially when Ukraine actually joins the EU so there is every chance that governments will try and take land back from Russia

didn't finland also take advantage of the russian civil war and take the territory. because the Grand Duchy of Finland has no coast in artik So the Russians just took their territory back

​​@@carkawalakhatulistiwa By that logic, all of Finland is Russian do Russia could take it all back at will. Or Russia owes Finland Karelian territory.

@@carkawalakhatulistiwa No. Russia took the parish Systerbäck in the 1800s, and the Czar promised to give Finland Petsamo as compensation, but he never did. And in 1918, Finland also occupied two parishes in East Karelia. The Soviet Union gave Finland Petsamo as a compensation for both Systerbäck and the parishes in East Karelia.

@@madsbuhris Finnish is not related to other Nordic languages.

@@madsbuhris Nej. Du har fel. Försök igen.

Seems like every error is intentional so that people would point them out and engage in his channel.

actually parts of finland is part of scandi peninsula so if people could stop repeating this bs that would be nice

Northern Finland is part of the Scandinavian Peninsula. But Finland is not part of the artificial Scandinavian area, which by definition only consists of Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Though one could argue that Finland used to be part of Scandinavia when it was part of Sweden.

The good thing is that it doesnt really matter. Because Sweden and Finland can use the norwegian ports with no problem.

If you count lakes as being bigger than 1 hectar, Finland has 56 000 lakes and Sweden has 100 000.

​@@peterjohansson739 Sour grapes. Finland has got far more lakes than Sweden.

The Sami have never really fought for their own nation-state either. I've sometimes wondered why. They do have some limited political autonomy in modern times, but I'm guessing that they've adopted a very practical attitude towards the Scandinavians, Finn's and Russians with whom they traded.

Historically, the Sami have not had enough resources to fight for an independent Sami state. The Sami were fewer in number than their neighbours, and heavy taxation kept them down economically. If you go back more than 500 years, there was no problem, at least not at the Norwegian border, because there was a common agreement between Sami and Norwegian neighbors about where the border was. Many buried treasures have been found along the border between Sami and Norwegian areas. The treasures contain both Sami and Norse jewelery and coins (Sami coins will then, for example, be Russian coins used in Sami areas). The objects have a lower content of precious metals than utility objects, so they might have been produced for this purpose. It suggests that it has been common practice for people along the border to make peaceful agreements about where it went. Sami and Norwegians mutually benefited from the neighborhood. Today there would be an uprising among many Norwegians if the Sami started talking about a separate state. Many Norwegians believe in the myth that the Sami immigrated and settled on Norwegian land long after the Norwegians. Recent research disproves such a theory. The ancestors of both Sami and Norwegians have been in the area for approximately the same amount of time, and at first it was "the same people". It developed into two different cultures based on different industries and later immigration to the areas from different places on the globe. According to Sturla Ellingvåg, historian and gene researcher from the YT channel Viking Stories, Norwegians and Samis are closely related genetically. Today, the Sami are pragmatic about their own state. As long as resources extracted from Sami areas are returned, so that culture and language can be preserved within the state formations that are in place, one is not willing to create unrest by fighting for a Sami state. Therefore, you are right in your assumption.

Because they didn't have the concept and lifestyle of a state! They have systematically been genocided by Swedes and Norwegians.

@@Bizmyurt The Sami have not been subjected to genocide. They have been subjected to persecution, and the Sami culture has been tried to be wiped out, but systematic killings of Sami by the states have not occurred, with the exception of an episode several hundred years ago in what is today Russian territory. I am Sami myself, and have studied Sami history.

@@ahkkariq7406 aka genocide!

but yeah, it would obviously create more buzz and eventually exchange and money if sweden and finland would have a small area in the north coast. I think it's just not allowed in constitution of Norway to give away any land which is sort of silly. strict borders might actually slow down development. if there was a finnish and swedish area of interest there, it would also create a quite hard military blockade for russia.

Wrong. The Baltic sea freezes in the winters, the arctic sea does not. Ice baths is an actual thing in Swedish and Finnish culture, usually in combination with sauna. Finns usually claim to be the inventors of the sauna, and that may be so, but it has it's roots deep in Swedish culture too.

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Well..Finland has never been part of Sweden...remember that..and ..Vikings never came To Finland because they didn't have guts..they wen't to Russia because it was litle bit easy way....😅

​@@akiitkonen Well someone failed their history class... At least google before you post...

​​@@akiitkonen Are you a finn?Finland was directly a part of Sweden.

No, Norri was a children of one finnish King. Thats came Norway, sorry

Especially Swedish imperialist always tried to hide and destroy finnish thrue history. Always.

Linguisticly it means North Richdom (Kingdom) as Sverige means Svea's richdom.

@@Bizmyurt no, the "way" part of "norway" means "way." Both the English word "way," meaning, "route," and "Norge" or any spelling of "Norway" have the etymological root of the old Norse word, which means, "way."

@@dbnst it is not english it is norwegian and it means north richdom!

No. Lithuania is a Baltic country.