Europe Scandinavian Peninsula

Europe is a peninsula of the eurasian supercontinent and is bordered by the arctic ocean to the north the atlantic ocean to the west and the mediterranean black and caspian seas to the south.

Europe scandinavian peninsula. The scandinavian peninsula is located in the northern region of europe and has coastlines along the norwegian sea in the west the baltic sea in the east the barents sea in the north and the north sea in the south. The term scandinavia in local usage covers the three kingdoms of denmark norway and sweden. Scandinavia is a large region of northern europe that is predominantly made up of the scandinavian peninsula.

It is europe s largest peninsula measuring 289 500 square miles. Some sources include the small finland projection of land marked with an arrow that separates norway from sweden within the peninsula s landmass number and so do we. Europes main peninsulas are the iberian italian and balkan located in southern europe and the scandinavian and jutland located in northern europe.

It is 1 150 miles long. The scandinavian peninsula is the largest of the well known peninsulas of europe with a greater area than the balkan iberian and italian peninsulas. Especially in germanic studies continental refers to the european continent excluding the scandinavian peninsula britain ireland and iceland the reason for this is that although the scandinavian peninsula is attached to continental europe and accessible via a land route along the 66th parallel north it is usually reached by sea.

Scandinavia ˌskændɪˈneɪviə skan dih nay vee ə is a subregion in northern europe with strong historical cultural and linguistic ties. This peninsula contains the countries of norway and sweden. The scandinavian peninsula in northern europe is home to the countries of norway sweden and part of finland.

Neighboring denmark and finland as well as iceland are also considered to be part of this region. The scandinavian peninsula of northern europe includes the countries of norway and sweden. Scandinavian peninsula large promontory of northern europe occupied by norway and sweden.

It is about 1 150 mi 1 850 km long and extends southward from the barents sea of the arctic ocean between the gulf of bothnia and the baltic sea east kattegat and skagerrak south and the norwegian and north seas west.