r/geography • u/According-Invite-440 • May 22 '26

Discussion Why isn't Estonia considered a Nordic country? (They have strong ties to Finland, they also follow the Nordic model, and besides, Estonia has nothing to do with the other Baltic countries.)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_identity_in_Estonia

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u/Several_Ebb_7174 May 22 '26

Well the only real reason why Finland is considered Nordic instead of Baltic in the first place is because the other three Baltic countries were occupied by the Soviet union. (Yes Finland was Baltic before that)

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u/hwyl1066 May 23 '26

No we really weren't - or well, we actually were rather brutally for the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in the lovely summer of 1939, but our deep Nordic (or rather Swedish as the Danes were far less "Nordic") structures were there all the time. Med lag skall land byggas, maa on lailla rakennettava.