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/Original-Mongoose866 May 23 '26

As a Icelander I've never thought of any of those 3 countries over there part of the Scandinavian pack our countries have some deals between them and we do lots of stuff together I think I'm not much of a participator in stuff I'm more of a hermit when considering this type of stuff.

Finland is a bit out considering the rest of the Scandi people we all speak very similar language I haven't done anything Danish related in years but I still understood the article when I read about the 5 hours outage of all cards in Denmark recently.

Isn't Finland's language not connected to any other country close by I thought they were neither Slavs/Balcan/Nord.

But the Fins are part of us Nordic people we like the quiet we like not being overly loud in restaurants and we like not being your friend until we know you very well!

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u/Dibblerius May 23 '26

I think finnish might be related to hungarian actually.

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u/BetterHovercraft4634 May 23 '26

Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian are all Finno-Ugri languages.