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In addition, the following autonomous territories are associated members of the Nordic Council:
They enjoy a degree of self-government and have distinct separate identities within their respective countries.
Besides the existing countries, Lapland also has a distinct identity. However, there is no movement for complete autonomy. The Sami Parliament , founded in the 1990s, has very weak political influence, far from autonomy. Although formaly similar to a goverment structure, the parliament does not strive for sovereignty. Besides minorities, there are also some groups that consider themselves to have a unique identity, rather than being derived from the Swedish culture, such as Dalecarlia and Scania.
In loose usage, the term ScandinaviaScandinavia is the cultural and historic region of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The Scandinavian countries are Norway, Sweden and Denmark, which mutually recognize each other as parts of Scandinavia. The collective label "Scandinavia" reflects the cultural is sometimes used as a synonym for Nordic countries. Strictly speaking, however, politicalPolitics is the process and method of decision-making for groups of human beings. Although it is generally applied to governments, politics is also observed in all human group interactions including corporate, academic, and religious. Political science is Scandinavia only includes Sweden, Norway and Denmark; geographicalGeography is the scientific study of the locational and spatial variation in both physical and human phenomena on Earth. The word derives from the Greek words g ("the Earth") and graphein ("to write," as in "to describe"). Geography is also the title of v Scandinavia only includes Sweden and Norway; and geologicalGeology (from Greek γ&eta ge "the earth") and λογος logos "word", "reason")) is the science and study of the Earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape it. Geolog Scandinavia comprises Sweden, Norway and Greenland.
Before 17th century, the Nordic or Northern was used to mean Northern Europe, including EuropeFor the band of the same name, see Europe (band . Europe is a continent forming the westermost part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sean RussiaThe Russian Federation ( Russian: , transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija , or Russia (Russian: , transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija , is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. With, the BalticBaltic can refer to: The Baltic Sea Council of the Baltic Sea States an intergovernmental organization Baltic sea countries countries with access to the Baltic Sea The term Baltic countries is sometimes used more or less synonymously for Northern Europe ( countries (at that time LivoniaThis article is about the region in Europe. For other uses see Livonia (disambiguation). Livonia once was the land of the Finnic Livonians, but came in the Middle Ages to designate a much broader territory controlled by the Livonian Order in Balticum on t and Courland) and Greenland.