scandinavia is a group of countries in northern europe. scandinavia is also the smallest region in europe. scandinavia has denmark, norway, and sweden. some people also think finland is part of scandinavia. others also say iceland and the faroe islands should count. most of the time, "scandinavia" is used to mean places where people speak scandinavian languages, also called north germanic languages or nordic. the scandinavian languages (swedish, norwegian, danish, icelandic, and faroese) are very similar to each other, and many scandinavians understand parts of the other languages because they are alike in some ways. finnish is not part of the north germanic language group.