Why Don't Sweden and Finland Touch the Arctic Ocean?

[@geopolipedia2956]

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[@Robespierre-lI]

Give up geography videos. You are doing a very poor job

[@mysak_cz5219]

Finland used to have access to arctic ocean, before Russia stole it...

[@UaLys]

War declared to Ukraine, not on Ukraine. Also, your map is incorrect, Ruzzia doesn’t own Crimea

[@jolotschka]

There are no linguistic similarities between Swedish and finnish 😊

[@intervrt]

Finnish has quite a lot of loan words from Swedish but other than that no

[@softballm1991]

If fact does any European country have linguistic similarities with Finland?

[@intervrt]

@@softballm1991 Estonian and Finnish are very closely related, Hungarian is more distant but still in the same Finno-Ugric branch

[@lucone2937]

Because of a long common history Finnish and Swedish alphabets are identical comprising twenty-nine letters including 3 vovels after Z: Å, Ä and Ö.

[@intervrt]

@@lucone2937 Finnish doesn't use the letter Å though, and I don't think the alphabet really tells anything useful about the language itself anyway since it's pretty arbitrary and doesn't determine how the letters sound in speech

[@petfama4211]

The simple answer is that before, traveling by land was hard so people usually traveled by boat. Thus Norway and its culture expanded along, and was always tied to the atlantic ocean, while Sweden and its culture likewise expanded along the baltic sea. No reason to make it this complicated tbh

[@francisdec1615]

Well, yes and no. Finland *had* a coast at the White Sea 1920-1947, but the Soviet Union stole it, and Sweden *tried* to get a coast there back when they were one.

[@voldlifilm]

A simple answer is an unexplored question.

[@frozello14]

Well that's mostly true for most borders, but to be fair sometimes it's funny to look at the maps and see some weird borderlines.

[@markthompson180]

The deeper answer is the fact that there's a mountain chain that dictates the border between Norway and Sweden/Finland.

[@tokeri4198]

its hard to collect taxes on someone that lives on the OTHER SIDE of a mountain, i love norway 17 maj and all but damn those scubadiving-goat-people are hard to talk to unless you yoodle if you are in the north kek.

[@CaptainBreny]

No, the Norway/Sweden border is based on which ocean their rivers drain into

[@kjellsjblog]

the ocean and waterways were the major metods of transportation in pre-industrial times, which would also bind communties closer together; also do not forget the harsh winters that would make land-transport harder

[@SS-yj2le]

@T.Berg Which is dictated largely by the mountain chain. Also, Norway borders 2 oceans.

[@SS-yj2le]

@Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi Water based transport is harder when the waterways are frozen.

[@iksRoald]

Finland is not part of the Scandinavian peninsula. It is part of fenno-scandia, but if you want a peninsula, you had better include kola and karelen, along the great lakes now in Russia

[@butterflies655]

Finland 🇫🇮 is a Nordic country country with Sweden 🇸🇪 Norway 🇸🇯 Denmark 🇩🇰 and Iceland 🇦🇽 They are all members of Nordic council and they all are prosperous countries with high standard of living.

[@dmasters5438]

"Finland is not part of the Scandinavian peninsula." The video is about Geography. Surely Finland is part of the Scandinavian peninsula, because part of the country is clearly inside it, isn't it? Denmark is not in Scandinavian peninsula, but it is part of Scandinavia. Part of Finland is in Scandinavian peninsula, but Finland is not in Scandinavia. Yes, the terms can be confusing.

[@markkempton4579]

@@dmasters5438 Finland is a Nordic country. It is not on the Scandanavian peninsula and is generally not considered Scandanavian.

[@eckligt]

You are right indeed, @iksRoald ! If he wanted to illustrate the Scandinavian peninsula on the map, he could draw a line from the northern tip of the gulf of Bothnia north-north-east to around the point where the Russo-Norwegian border meets the sea. (A small part of Finland would fall inside Scandinavia, but the political boundary is close to this line, so we don't really make a distinction.) If he wanted to illustrate the Fenno-Scandia region, which is more of a political concept, he could just highlight Norway, Sweden and Finland on the map. This concept could also be construed as its own peninsula, in which case he could draw a line from the Gulf of Finland around Vyborg to the White Sea, but this then includes some parts of Russia including the whole Kola peninsula.

[@V3ntilator]

It's true that Finland isn't part of Scandinavia. Finland and Iceland is part of Nordic. Norway, Sweden and Denmark is part of both.

[@Zardagbum]

I'm at 2:06 and so far a) Did you say the gulf of bohemia? b) No, the three cities do not lie on the gulf of BOTHNIA c) The graph does show the linguistic similarities of finnish and swedish as in there barely are any.

[@gandolfthegardener]

Yes, he said "Bohemia" and not "Bothnia".

[@mariusjurca2980]

😂 True, I've stopped watching at 2:20

[@leisti]

The narration claims that all Sweden's three cities are on the Gulf of Bothnia, while the map correctly shows that they are not. And this video is supposed to be about geography.

[@aziraphaleangel]

Stopped watching at that point as I was just too irritated. Dude, your OWN MAP clearly shows that what you've just said is nonsense!

[@ispejonas]

A very american dude who doesn't care

[@dvquentin]

This video is filled with approximations. The geographical areas are wrongly named, and the borders of countries not respected (Finland’s territory includes the Åland archipelago for example…). Finland is not part of Scandinavia etc.

[@Robespierre-lI]

It's amusing that you correct the KZbinr for sloppy work and he "likes" your comment without saying anything or correcting the video. Wow.

[@V3ntilator]

@@Robespierre-lI It's nothing new that KZbin videos have wrong facts. I see it often on other channels too. Rule #1. Don't trust everything you see on KZbin including fake restoration videos and fake staged animal rescue channels.

[@ispejonas]

The author mentions the gulf of Bohemia instead of Bothnia. What ignorance! Sloppy work.

[@JH-lo9ut]

Sweden and Norway are divided by a mountain range that runs at the centre of the scandinavian peninsula. That's the natural border between the countries. Norway was settled along the atlantic coast , Sweden was settled along the baltic coast. If you go even further back, Sweden is made up of two proto-kingdoms or tribes. The Svear (Swedes) centred around lake mälaren, in the general area of Stockholm, and the Götar (Goths) centred on the south-west coast, and middle south in the general area of Gothenburg (grossly simplified). The southern tip of Sweden was for the longest part populated by danes and was part of Denmark. These three regions were divided by deep forests that was hardly populated at all. Travel was made by boat. The northern and inland parts of Scandinavia was mostly inhabited by the Sami people. Their land was gradually incorporated into the kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. They were considered subjects of either state, but also enjoyed some level of autonomy and moved freely across the border in the far north. Frankly, for the longest time there was no-one else there who bothered to control their movement. (Now the history of the Sami and their relations to the Scandinavian states is a long and intricate one. Not without friction, but far from the worst you could imagine. It is way beyond my level of knowledge so I'll leave it at that. To travel from central Sweden to the arctic sea over land would be extremely hard even up until modern times. (Unless you were accustomed to this harsh environment, like the Sami) Instead, you would sail all along down the coast, out through the Öresund strait and up the coast of Norway. By the way. It's the gulf of bothnia, not bohemia. Bohemia is a region in central europe, far from the sea.

[@Lindeberg73]

No, Sweden and Norway are not divided by a mountain range. Most of the border are forest in the low land. Most of the Scandinavian mountain range are within the country of Norway.

[@JH-lo9ut]

@@Lindeberg73 of course you are right most of the mountains are in Norway. What I meant was that the countries were settled along either coast, and the mountains effectively separated the areas that were settled. Forests were probably just as big of an obstacle if you wanted to cross the peninsula from east to west. The question in the video is why Sweden doesn't reach all the way to the sea in the north, and that's what I tried to answer.

[@Carlium]

​@@Lindeberg73 It depends on where you look, if you look at the Norwegian Nordland county, you'll see that the mountains do in fact separate the countries, a little fun fact is that the border was made with the rivers in mind, so that Norwegian rivers would flow towards the Atlantic and Swedish rivers flow towards Bothnia. You'll also notice that almost as soon as the mountain range ends, suddenly Norway goes a bit further inland before going out towards the ocean again and ends, this area is pretty flat tundra, which is why it was easier to go inland and claim lands. While we claimed the flat area with nothing on it, the Swedes / Finns claimed the Enare area which contains a large lake. Also there was a small point in time where Norway had the entire Kola Peninsula, but that's really long ago.

[@60plus01]

Even if you dont see big mountains you have a divider how the water flows either to the west or the east. Thats the mountain range Scandia.

[@user-uu2rf8ev7z]

Watershed divides are used to define borders all around the world. The reason Brazil extends so far inland from the Atlantic Ocean as that all of the rivers within that country flow into the Atlantic. If a drop of rain falls on an area and begins its journey into the Amazon River, that area belongs to Brazil.

[@albireo2990]

The highlighted area in the beginning is Fennoscandia. Scandinavia is Norway, Sweden and *Denmark.*

[@geopolipedia2956]

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[@dikkeboktor4312]

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[@mxronga]

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[@Jo-Heike]

@@geopolipedia2956 You're both wrong. The Scandinavian peninsula is all of Sweden and Norway with a small part of Northwestern Finland included. Fennoscandia is all of Finland, Norway, Sweden, the Kola peninsula and Russian controlled Karelia. The area you have highlighted is just Norway, Sweden and Finland, they don't have a group name that doesn't include some other countries, or parts of Russia.

[@marym7104]

@@Jo-Heike bruh

[@filoctetes7035]

finnish and swedish have close to 0 linguistic similarities, Finland has swedish as a mandatory class in school. And that's why they can understand and kind of speak Swedish. but we swedes have no clue what they're saying when they're speaking finnish

[@randomcomment6068]

This.

[@pontus3018]

It's very strange that finnish people learn Swedish and we Sweds don't learn finnish. I feel like if they learn our language, we should do the same.

[@randomcomment6068]

@@pontus3018 It isn't strange. Finland was a Swedish colony, not vice versa. Because of that you have remnants of this in this form today. In the north you have meänkieli and is a recognized language, just like sami (both are in active use). But you have to go to the north parts of course.

[@Adam-dd5fx]

I was excited to see a video about my home country Sweden as there aren't many on youtube. Sadly this one has many inaccuracies. For example the map you showed of sweden the year 1200 is actually 1600s border. If you search sweden year 1200 you will see that it was much smaller

[@aatox]

In these sort of videos the climate is always emphasized as being ICY COLD, and although parts of our Nordic countries are indeed in the sub-arctic region, the most populated areas are in the southern parts of these countries, where climate is quite mild and temperate. I mean, for example in my hometown of Gothenburg on the Swedish west coast, winters are mostly rainy and snow rarely stays more than just a few days on the ground. I can't even remember when I last saw a white Christmas here! I guess people abroad still think that icebears walk on the streets of Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki...

[@pansexualdickhaver6878]

Lol I’m from the US and never been to Scandinavia but what you’re describing is the same way many Americans think Canadians are lmao many of us think Canadians are fighting off polar bears daily when the truth is most Canadians never even seen a polar bear irl

[@Scriptorsilentum]

you should hear some of the things americans think about canada.

[@fightingasnail]

lol im from skåne and this is very true

[@yousandro1999]

i mean, the only time i visited Sweden it was snowing and at 2pm there was already no sun as a Portuguese this was a really insane experience for me

[@aatox]

@@yousandro1999 Of course it does snow in the winter, and the further north you get, the more likely it is that there will actually be snow on the ground. In the southern parts of Sweden, especially nowadays, snow has become something of a rarity. Our winters are mostly just wet and cold. The same with the sunlight, Sweden is quite stretched, so in the most northern parts of the country they indeed have almost polar nights, here in the southern parts it's just dark early, but you can still see sunlight on the short days. But - during summer they instead enjoy midnight sun up north, and here in the south sun sets just very swiftly. The variations are quite big, both depending on the season and the location. My original comment was more a remark on the general idea that the Nordic countries would be some icy kingdom à la Disney's Frozen with eternal winter. We DO have summer too! AND spring and autumn! :D

[@hoodlum8959]

I dont understand how one can get almost everything wrong like this

[@butterflies655]

Everything is not wrong in this video.

[@jonathanm42]

I’m an Australian who has never even been any of these countries, I’m 2.5 minutes in and already annoyed about all the inaccuracies

[@yfrasil]

The Petsamo area actually linked Finland to the Arctic Sea before the Soviet invasion and hereafter annexation of Finnish areas.

[@ДанилаМилицын-ж8г]

Since you said A, say B. The current Pechenga (former Petsamo) was founded in the 16th century. Since that time, he began to enter the territory of the Russian state. Sometimes the Swedes came there and razed everything to the ground. In the Russian Empire, this territory was part of the Arkhangelsk province. In 1921, Mannerheim declared war on the USSR that had just begun to exist and captured Pechenga, giving it the name Petsamo. Prior to this, Pechenga had never been considered Finnish lands. The Finns lost these lands 23 years later, in 1944. Everything, just the facts. This settlement was Finnish for 23 years out of 500, it was the Finns who occupied this territory and subsequently, despite the help of the Big Brother of the Finns (Nazis), they lost it. Learn history so you don't look stupid, have a great week everyone!

[@PrinceOfTaliban]

​@@ДанилаМилицын-ж8гPetsamo has been populated by kvens and samis originally which are related to finns not russians. Also finns build almost everything in Petsamo and also populated it until 1944. Russians came to petsamo in 1944 they definetly arent the original owners pf petsamo. Please learn some history.

[@ДанилаМилицын-ж8г]

@@PrinceOfTaliban Since I myself have Finno-Ugric roots, I probably know what I’m talking about. I’ll tell you a secret, the Sami, Finno-Ugrians and Estonians live not only in Finland. Russians are those who live on the territory of Russia, and not some isolated nation. I'm glad I expanded your horizons, don't thank me.

[@PrinceOfTaliban]

@@ДанилаМилицын-ж8г Russians are slavs not finno-ugric. Kvens are also directly related to finns they are baltic-finnic people. If petsamo was created by finnic people, lived by finnic people why should russia rule it. I can tell you that salvic people populated petsamo from 1944 while finns had build everything ready for them.

[@ДанилаМилицын-ж8г]

@@PrinceOfTaliban Here's a simple example: Americans. These are the masters of the Finns, if anything. You may be of Chinese, Kenyan, Latvian or Tumba-Yumba origin, but if you have a US passport, then you will be considered an American. It's the same with Russia.

[@eliasnordqvist6455]

The map of the kingdom of sweden that you show at 2:54 is incorrect since it shows the swedish borders at its greatest extent in 1658, around 1200 ad sweden mainly owned svealand, götaland and some of the western finnish coast.

[@annabackman3028]

Norwegian and Swedish (also Danish, Icelandic and Faroese) are from the group of Nordic Languages. Finnish is from the Finno-Ugric, North Finnic, group, and close related to Estonian. Finnish and Estonian are more related to Hungarian than to the rest of the Nordic, nor Baltic, countries. The different parts of bays of the Baltic Sea... Well. That didn't work out entirely. First a pronunciation lesson: Bothnia. B O TH N I A. Pronounce the first part "Both" like if you say 'Goth'. Add "n ee a" - neea. Both-neea. Then, the map. Like a belt between Sweden and Finland lie a cluster of islands called Åland., The belt, from the Swedish coast to the Åland Islands hence is Ålands hav/The Ålandic Sea. Between Åland and the Finnish coast you have the Ålands skärgård/Ålandic - Finnish Archipelago. NORTH of Åland's hav you have (in Swedish) 'Bottniska viken' (the Bay of Bothnia). The southern half is (Swe. Bottenhavet) the Bothnian Sea, and the northern half is (Swe. Bottenviken) the Bothnian Bay. The bay south of Finnland is (Swe. Finska viken) the Gulf of Finland. The gulf east of mainland Estonia and the large islands (Swe. Dagö o Ösel) Hiiumaa and Saaremaa is the Gulf of Riga (Riga is the capital city of Estonia, of course located on the coastline. The rest of the open water is the Baltic Sea (Swe. Östersjön, "the East lake/sea").

[@geopolipedia2956]

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[@Siiri-b5q]

Riga is actually the capital of Latvia and the capital of Estonia is Tallinna. And I didn't even know what Åland is in English and I didn't even thought of it. If yesterday someone had asked me what is Åland in English I'd probably said Ahvenanmaa (witch is Åland in Finnish). Of course I knew that Åland is Åland in Swedis

[@minnaorv]

theres no such thing as nordic languages. Finnish is a completely diff group from other nordic languages. Slavic languages are closer to Scandinavian languages than Finnish

[@melburnian]

@@geopolipedia2956 Not likely, your geography skills are poor if I'm honest

[@pupper5580]

I was told by someone that everything east of Denmark is basically the Baltic Sea, including Gulf of Finland and whatever else. I'd like a clarification - is Baltic Sea separate from things like Gulf of Finland or Bay of Bothnia - or are things like Gulf of Finland and Bay of Bothnia things which are under the bigger sea called the Baltic Sea? I'd really love a clarification, because in school we never even were told about the Baltic Sea basically existing (we probably were but I can't remember) - so it was weird for me to be told that Finland was in the shore of Baltic Sea. My reaction was like: I thought the Baltic Sea was down there in South, not over here on the shores of Finland.

[@endeliggnist5066]

Sweden and Finland: "Can we go swimming in the arctic?" Norway: "No."

[@erikstenviken2652]

The good thing is that it doesnt really matter. Because Sweden and Finland can use the norwegian ports with no problem.

[@camdenrafftery3555]

The main reason Finland has no arctic ports is because of Russia. Russia took away the province of Petsamo. Finland’s only access to the Arctic Ocean.

[@brandonvasser5902]

All Russia does is deport people from their own country until they invade it

[@peterebel7899]

Who is Russia?

[@camdenrafftery3555]

@@peterebel7899 My bad. I guess I should’ve said Soviet Union.

[@Krym_rus]

I would like to correct the author of this video. Petsamo, this area was captured by Finland from the civil war-torn Russia. It is enough to look at the map of Finland as part of the Russian Empire and already an independent country. It is a pity that some people, for the sake of their political preferences, mislead the public.

[@peterebel7899]

@@Krym_rus Russki You are telling nonsense! the USSR conquered vast areas from Finland and gave back just a little part. You want this part again? When will you give back all the areas to Finland you had criminally stolen some years ago?

[@karsten27027]

Until the railway appeared, it was water that connected and land that divided. So it had to be Norway that took the area.

[@ahkkariq7406]

Exactly.

[@kaius3351]

【5:35】This part is important ! ! ! When Finland achieved independence, it owned the Petsamo area where touched Arctic Ocean, but it was robbed by the soviet Union during World War Ⅱ. I'm so sorry for Finland. 😢

[@emmaegede1262]

@kaius3351 Keep Crying 😭 LOOSER 🤡

[@Gytman189]

To be honest, now that Russia has spent two years trying to bully everyone, we are likely to see some kind of forced reparations, especially when Ukraine actually joins the EU so there is every chance that governments will try and take land back from Russia

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

didn't finland also take advantage of the russian civil war and take the territory. because the Grand Duchy of Finland has no coast in artik So the Russians just took their territory back

[@jamegumb7298]

​​@@carkawalakhatulistiwa By that logic, all of Finland is Russian do Russia could take it all back at will. Or Russia owes Finland Karelian territory.

[@francisdec1615]

@@carkawalakhatulistiwa No. Russia took the parish Systerbäck in the 1800s, and the Czar promised to give Finland Petsamo as compensation, but he never did. And in 1918, Finland also occupied two parishes in East Karelia. The Soviet Union gave Finland Petsamo as a compensation for both Systerbäck and the parishes in East Karelia.

[@francisdec1615]

Bay of BOHEMIA? That would be in landlocked Czech lands. The GULF of BOTHNIA is the name. And even stranger is that your TEXT says "Bay of Bothnia", which is half correct but that's not what you are saying in the video.

[@iksRoald]

In the period between the two world wars, Finland did have a border to the artic sea

[@marmac83]

How come in your historical maps, Finland's eastern borders are consistently the post-1945 borders?

[@reb0118]

Good point. Viipuri/Vyborg & the Karelian Isthmus were/are Finnish territory. That is something that annoys me too - brodcasters using modern borders willy nilly for historical episodes without any explanation.

[@PrinceOfTaliban]

In 1940-1944 finland had only petsamo so it was actually the correct map

[@peterhansmuijzenbergvanden5956]

Well, if you must: Sámi is pronounced /ˈsɑːmi/. Finland and Sweden are countries along the Skerries, Norway is along the Ocean. Just imagine to always sail to the next cape: Finland and Sweden can't get to the Ocean coast that way; Norway is on it already, and can continue to expand along it until it runs into the Tsar's ambitions. Ukraine is commonly pronounced as something like [ʊkrɐˈjinɐ].

[@Visse90]

2:53. That's a map of Sweden in the 1600s. Not 1200 AD. Also, Finland is not on the Scandinavian peninsula, except parts of Lappland. Also, it's not the gulf of Bohenia, but Bothnia.

[@dannyatthebeach]

Was confused by the comment about the 3 major cities being located on the coast of the Bay of Bothnia, followed by the bay itself getting highlighted and shown to be somewhere else on the map… 🤔

[@paarma1752]

Nothing triggers Swedes, Norges and Danes more than saying that Finland is part of "Scandinavia" 😂 Somehow this is a really tender spot for them. Welp, it's popcorn time again 🍿

[@Bubajumba]

honestly Norges triggered me more for some reason. Never heard it before lol

[@gdzephyriac2766]

Norge is the name of Norway in Norwegian and Swedish lol

[@holger_p]

Why this ? I mean by geography Danes aren't Scandinvia either, but somehow these for countries are always grouped together with having similiar climate, culture, economy. It maybe just to not let Finland stand alone. Right now Finland and Sweden want to join Nato, so they do things together.

[@Bubajumba]

@@holger_p it's because north of finland, lappland is part of Scandinavia

[@holger_p]

@@Bubajumba This doesn't tell me anything what the term scandinvia means to Swedes. Topic was, it's their tender spot to misuse the word. It's like discussing wheter france is western europe or central europe. It's completly meaningless. Both is OK, nobody cares.

[@Siddu457]

Can you tell me why you pronounce gulf of bothnia as bohemia??

[@auldfouter8661]

I thought no one else had noticed - it's weird.

[@ahwhite2022]

He also seems to think Russia declared war on Ukraine. That wouldn't exactly fit Russia's "special military operation" narrative.

[@alehaim]

In short Sweden is separated by the Scandinavian mountains that on the coast belong to Norway which became independent from it in 1905, while Finland used to have Petsamo as a result of a border treaty with the USSR which came to they lost following the continuation war's end in 1944.

[@ovekkjlstad7703]

Wrong facts: Finnland is not on the Scandinavian penninsula. Finnish has NO linquistig links to Norwegian or Swedish.

[@svenko]

@@madsbuhris Finnish is not related to other Nordic languages.

[@melburnian]

@@madsbuhris Nej. Du har fel. Försök igen.

[@markjosephbacho5652]

Seems like every error is intentional so that people would point them out and engage in his channel.

[@Sodacacik]

actually parts of finland is part of scandi peninsula so if people could stop repeating this bs that would be nice

[@paarma1752]

Northern Finland is part of the Scandinavian Peninsula. But Finland is not part of the artificial Scandinavian area, which by definition only consists of Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Though one could argue that Finland used to be part of Scandinavia when it was part of Sweden.

[@adoresithole6072]

Norway to Finland and Sweden was like... No Way for u to the Arctic 😂

[@RC94332]

Interesting video. Learned something new

[@Infernal_Elf]

The video shown from 6:39 when talking about northern norway today shows video from Oslo the capital down south not any of the northern cities in Norway

[@Luredreier]

I enjoyed watching the video. I'm not sure if you're making mistakes to intentionally drive engagement. But it was fun spotting them and pointing them out. :-)

[@geopolipedia2956]

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[@hughmungus1767]

@@geopolipedia2956 Factual errors like the ones in this video are exactly why I will NOT be subscribing.

[@ABtheButterfly]

So Sweden and Finland don't touch the Arctic Ocean because of Norway? Sweden: Hey Norway can Finland and I please touch the arctic ocean? Norway: No Sweden: Aww man :'( Finland: Perkelel >:{

[@danielvanrooyen2785]

Does not seem to be so well researched ... thought through ... BUT! Many good comments/reactions further down does a fine job giving a more clear/true perspective. Thnaks for that!

[@V3ntilator]

Kingdom of Norway from year 872 - 1645 were huge. Included a huge chunk of Sweden, Iceland, Greenland, Part of northern UK and more. Norway and Denmark were one kingdom for nearly 300 years. 1524-1533 and 1537-1814. Norway today. Svalbard, Big chunk of Antarctic, Jan Mayen, 54% of the North Sea, Bjornoya and Bouvet Island (Most remote island on the planet, between South Africa and Arctic).

[@csmac3144a]

Norway is one of the world's wealthiest nations per capita due to their possession of vast offshore oil fields.

[@dos3722]

Notable.. there is railway from the Swedish mines to narvik in Norway ..

[@Mickelraven]

Sweden and Finland: Can we get some of that Arctic ocean coastline? Norway: lol no xD

[@butterflies655]

Finland is a very beautiful country as well and it has 187 000 lakes.

[@peterjohansson739]

If you count lakes as being bigger than 1 hectar, Finland has 56 000 lakes and Sweden has 100 000.

[@butterflies655]

​@@peterjohansson739 Sour grapes. Finland has got far more lakes than Sweden.

[@ahkkariq7406]

The northern parts of todays Sweden and Finland were mostly inhabited by the Sami people, so the question should actually be "Why doesn't the Sami have their own country state? The answer is Denmark/Norway took control of the coastal area inhabited by the Sami up to Kirkenes + since the travelling route at the time was by sea. Sweden took control of the inland inhabited by the Sami as well as Finland and Petsamo and Russia took control of the Cola Peninsula. All these areas are parts of Sápmi, the land of the Samis.

[@Robespierre-lI]

The Sami have never really fought for their own nation-state either. I've sometimes wondered why. They do have some limited political autonomy in modern times, but I'm guessing that they've adopted a very practical attitude towards the Scandinavians, Finn's and Russians with whom they traded.

[@ahkkariq7406]

Historically, the Sami have not had enough resources to fight for an independent Sami state. The Sami were fewer in number than their neighbours, and heavy taxation kept them down economically. If you go back more than 500 years, there was no problem, at least not at the Norwegian border, because there was a common agreement between Sami and Norwegian neighbors about where the border was. Many buried treasures have been found along the border between Sami and Norwegian areas. The treasures contain both Sami and Norse jewelery and coins (Sami coins will then, for example, be Russian coins used in Sami areas). The objects have a lower content of precious metals than utility objects, so they might have been produced for this purpose. It suggests that it has been common practice for people along the border to make peaceful agreements about where it went. Sami and Norwegians mutually benefited from the neighborhood. Today there would be an uprising among many Norwegians if the Sami started talking about a separate state. Many Norwegians believe in the myth that the Sami immigrated and settled on Norwegian land long after the Norwegians. Recent research disproves such a theory. The ancestors of both Sami and Norwegians have been in the area for approximately the same amount of time, and at first it was "the same people". It developed into two different cultures based on different industries and later immigration to the areas from different places on the globe. According to Sturla Ellingvåg, historian and gene researcher from the YT channel Viking Stories, Norwegians and Samis are closely related genetically. Today, the Sami are pragmatic about their own state. As long as resources extracted from Sami areas are returned, so that culture and language can be preserved within the state formations that are in place, one is not willing to create unrest by fighting for a Sami state. Therefore, you are right in your assumption.

[@Bizmyurt]

Because they didn't have the concept and lifestyle of a state! They have systematically been genocided by Swedes and Norwegians.

[@ahkkariq7406]

@@Bizmyurt The Sami have not been subjected to genocide. They have been subjected to persecution, and the Sami culture has been tried to be wiped out, but systematic killings of Sami by the states have not occurred, with the exception of an episode several hundred years ago in what is today Russian territory. I am Sami myself, and have studied Sami history.

[@Bizmyurt]

@@ahkkariq7406 aka genocide!

[@alexeystuliy2001]

Whole Finland was born after Russian Empire "invaded" and annexed these lands 8:33 from Sweden. Without Russia Finland wouldnt be existing. Finland fought on German side during WW2, so USSR took the costal lands.

[@francisdec1615]

Without Russia losing WWI Finland wouldn't exist. The Central Powers forced Russia to give Finland independence. But just wait until Russia has lost in Ukraine too.

[@danielgoldberg2129]

Not sure where you filmed “Finmark” but none of it was actually in the Finmark area of Norway. The total population of the area is about 75K spread out over a dozen small towns. There are no large port cities like you showed.

[@Ducesweden]

No, Sweden was not at that extent in 1200, those are the borders from the Roskilde treaty of 1658.

[@marsukarhu9477]

Scandinavan peninsula consists of Norway & Sweden. The geographic area that's includes Norway, Sweden & Finland (+ Kola peninsula + parts of Karelia, currently in Russia) is called FENNOSCANDIA. Also linguistically Finnish and Swedish don't even belong to the same language family. Swedish is closer to Hindi. Persian and Armenian than Finnish. But they do have a lot of common vocabulary thanks to thousands of years of close relations and Finland being part of Sweden for 600 years.

[@EdMcF1]

4:03 Gulf of 'Bothnia', not (landlocked) Bohemia.

[@annabackman3028]

This is about how Sweden has evolved, but that includes both Norway and especially Finland too. Swedish speaker, subtitles in English (cc). No actual video, just the map. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqjUqaRmdpinbcU

[@neuralwarp]

1:28 "Bay of Bohemia" ? You might want to read that again. (And it's not Bosnia either)

[@jan_noah]

dennmark is in skandinavia too! thank you for the heart :)

[@serge.stecenko]

5:23, great views at the Lielupe river's delta, my hometown Jūrmala, Latvia. Not sure how it got here 😂

[@greengorillah]

Studying a museum collection of sea shells I came across a Finnish sea shell from the arctic. I did not understand how this was possible until I realized that the Petsamo area was a Finnish connection to the Arctic Ocean at the time this shell was collected!

[@noa4ly425]

Great video! I would just like to point out that the map of Sweden at 2:50 very closely resembles the borders after the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658, rather than in the 1200's. Otherwise great work!

[@zzrzx-ck5jo]

3:58 its called Troms. Tromsø is a City in that region

[@FewVidsJustComments]

The Soviet Union also included the Baltic countries and Eastern Europe, not just Russia

[@tedmccarron]

"So why don't Finland and Sweden have a connection to the Arctic Ocean? The answer is Sweden." Well in Finland's case the answer is "Stalin."

[@Rysussybaka]

Guess there's _Nor-way_ for sweden and finland to reach the arctic ocean

[@seanchadwick9036]

The Scandinavian Peninsula is a peninsula located in Northern Europe, which roughly comprises the mainlands of Sweden, Norway and the northwestern area of Finland. Fennoscandia or the Fennoscandian Peninsula, is the geographical peninsula in Europe which includes the Scandinavian and Kola peninsulas, mainland Finland, and Karelia. Administratively, this roughly encompasses the mainlands of Finland, Norway and Sweden, as well as Murmansk Oblast, much of the Republic of Karelia, and parts of northern Leningrad Oblast in Russia.

[@TheRilluma]

nice video

[@johnburn8031]

I never realised that Sweden and Finland don't have any coast on the Arctic ocean. 😯😮🤦🏻‍♂️

[@peterjohansson739]

Well, Finland was Sweden for 900 years or so. Norway belonged to Sweden for almost 100 years until 1905. Parts of Norway was also Sweden a couple of hundred years ago. If you look at the map around Riksgränsen, you can see that the Atlantic Ocean is only a kilometer away. Sweden never pushed further north back in the day but could have easily done so. But the Arctic ocean had no value back then. I guess no one in Sweden think of a lack of arctic coastline as a loss in any dimension.

[@akiitkonen]

Well..Finland has never been part of Sweden...remember that..and ..Vikings never came To Finland because they didn't have guts..they wen't to Russia because it was litle bit easy way....😅

[@Rick_Zune]

​@@akiitkonen Well someone failed their history class... At least google before you post...

[@butterflies655]

​​@@akiitkonen Are you a finn?Finland was directly a part of Sweden.

[@MattiAntsuK]

1:27 Bohemia? No it's pronounced Bothnia. Just like the "OTH" sound in Gothenburg at 1:23.

[@ilmarisarjakoski7166]

Actually Finland does not belong to the Scandinavian peninsula, only Sweden and Norway. Finland does have Scandinavian culture though and they all are Nordic countries.

[@geopolipedia2956]

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[@Sodacacik]

actually parts of finland is part of scandi peninsula so if people could stop repeating this bs that would be nice

[@ab9840]

The NW part of Finland which is called Lapland (represents 25% of Finlands total territory and 3.4% of its population) is located on the Scandinavian Peninsula. But so is a small part of Russia called Pechengsky District (which borders Finlands lapland and Norway) which had a population of almost 40.000 in 2010.

[@baardi2]

Funny how you show footage of Oslo while explaining who lives in Finnmark

[@jonathanlindqvist2608]

Fun fact about Finland once being part of Sweden: the province (?) of Västerbotten (West Bothnia) is on the east coast of Sweden, while the province of Österbotten (East Bothnia) is on the west coast of Finland. Loads of people there speak swedish. (Tbh I don't know if the word "east" is in the finnish name though, or if we're just holding on from sentimentality.)

[@holger_p]

This question is as useful, as to ask why Uganda isn't on the South Pole. It's all these "Why isn't true".

[@gracemcbride7753]

Very interesting

[@fattiesunite2288]

Sweden and finland: I wanna take ice bath. Norway: no

[@JH-lo9ut]

Wrong. The Baltic sea freezes in the winters, the arctic sea does not. Ice baths is an actual thing in Swedish and Finnish culture, usually in combination with sauna. Finns usually claim to be the inventors of the sauna, and that may be so, but it has it's roots deep in Swedish culture too.

[@fattiesunite2288]

@@JH-lo9ut 🤓🤓🤓

[@aquaman3874]

2:06 "Showing it's linguistic similarity" - This should be "Showing its shared history" instead. The Finnish language is not in the same language group as Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish.

[@DuckDuckDuckDuckDuckDuckDucks]

Why did you not include denmark in the Scandinavian penesila?

[@keyvin2251]

Good idea for a video but there is just soo much factually wrong with this. Maybe Google a couple more times next time

[@thomasespas3990]

1:24 you mean none of the cities are located at the coast of the bay of bathina?...

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Have visited Sweden a few times, marvelous country. Very eager to visit besutiful Norway (but it's so expensive?!). Greetings dnd love from Portugal.

[@vicsaul5459]

04:19. Intregal!!! Brilliant ⛈👏😮, KZbin 🏆, best research 🤔, and ps why is the narrator on helium.

[@geirvinje2556]

This is just stupid. Finland had access to the Artic sea, but Russia took that part. And, if you look at Scandinavia. Kola, and Karelen are a part of this. Kola was sami land, and Karelen was a part of Finland. So, this is just stupid.

[@fr0ntend]

Land divides, water unites. The thick forests and dense mountains kept the swedes and finns from discovering and claiming the coast of artic ocean, and had them decide to expand inwards to eastern europe instead. Norway however was in a prime position to claim the coast because they sailed their way north. Interestingly though, the blessed geography that is the norwegian coast today, is what handicapped the country from becoming a great power back in the 16th-18th centuries. Their geography pretty much locked them into the scandinavian peninsula while denmark (with close proximity to the other european great powers, and a much better agriculture, and sweden which were easily allowed to expand eastwards consolidated their place as regional powers.

[@Carlium]

Since you mentioned that Finland had a connection to the arctic at one point, you should've also mentioned that Norway did own / have rights to the lands of the Kola Peninsula region for a short time.

[@Luredreier]

2:01 No, there's *very* little linguistic similarities. Finnish belongs to a entirely different language family then the nordic languages. Swedish is a minority language in Finland. Suggesting any linguistic similarities is *very* misleading. 2:56 That is *not* a map over Sweden in 1200, back then the country was *far* smaller, this map shows parts of Norway that only fairly briefly where under Swedish rule later in history. Also, why the heck are you showing images of vikings in the 1200s? The viking age in Scandinavia was long gone by then and we where in the medieval times together with the rest of Europe by then. 3:32 Seriously? You're mixing up the 1200s and the Viking era?!? 4:21 While technically true it would be better to mention that the union lasted for centuries instead of indicating that it was somehow brief like it sounds like in that sentence. 7:33 The map shows a road through Russia. Also, the reason we ended up taking that area isn't just our king. We used to trade there with peoples who lived on the coast of what's today Russia for ages and ages. Given that Sweden was our arch enemy it would have been bad for us if Sweden got control over the area and the ability to cut us off from Russia. For instance during the Napoleonic war a part of the reason we didn't starve when food from Denmark and elsewhere was blockaded by the Brits, was grain imported from Russia.

[@geopolipedia2956]

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[@TheLowEndTheory]

Finnish and Swedes: I want to see the artic side of the ocean Norway: No

[@georgegalarza6278]

Russia is also part of the peninsula bro.

Skip to 4:11 for the answer

[@prototropo]

The Finns have not gotten a fair deal from history, In addition to losing Arctic Ocean access, Russia grabbed her Karelia province down on the Baltic border with the east. Russia's grabby history does not stand it in good stead. The composer Sibelius used to go outside when a Russian military plane flew over to take potshots at it. And he wrote a wonderful work for the university students near there in the Viborg province--"The Karelia Suite." kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6PcmYFroLN5sMU

[@joonieboonie9295]

There are so many mistakes in the first 2 minutes alone, this video appears very badly researched: - Skandinavia is usually considered to be Norway Denmark, Sweden. NOT Finland. - the division of the Scandinavian peninsular shown is geographically completely random. Either it consist of Norway and Sweden, or of Norway, Sweden, Finland and part of Russia (Kola peninsula). The division shown is very clearly based on a "it has to be SWE, NOR, FIN, not RU" mindset. - Finnish FAMOUSLY has no linguistic relatives except Estonian and a veeeery distant relative in Hungarian. Saying that 5% Swedish speakers living in Finland show that Finnish and Swedish are linguistically close is like saying that there being mandarin speakers in Canada proves that English and Mandarin are linguistically close. (It's due to colonisation of Finland by Sweden, you're welcome.) - you list a bunch of cities, say that they are located at the Bay of Bothnia, and then CLEARLY SHOW that the bay of Bothnia is way further up north than any of these cities (especially Goetheburg which is facing the North Sea, not the Baltic Seas, to begin with ????

[@butterflies655]

The only difference between Finland and Scandinavia is that Finland has got more ppl with blue eyes and blond hair.

[@artgreen6915]

01:19 'Its principle cities [lists 3 cities] are all located along the coast of the Bay of Bothnia' [identifies area of Bay of Bothnia, dubiously pronounced, as barely touching Stockholm and nowhere near the other 2 cities at all]. On encountering sloppy inconsistentency like this, I tend to assume a lack of effort or lazy use of automation. I am then unlikely to finish the video and strongly consider pressing the 'do not recommend channel' button.

[@dbnst]

'Norway' means 'north way' because the landscape has always been about a land for sailor's home-forts along the passage to and up into the far sea.

[@Lumperi65]

No, Norri was a children of one finnish King. Thats came Norway, sorry

[@Lumperi65]

Especially Swedish imperialist always tried to hide and destroy finnish thrue history. Always.

[@Bizmyurt]

Linguisticly it means North Richdom (Kingdom) as Sverige means Svea's richdom.

[@dbnst]

@@Bizmyurt no, the "way" part of "norway" means "way." Both the English word "way," meaning, "route," and "Norge" or any spelling of "Norway" have the etymological root of the old Norse word, which means, "way."

[@Bizmyurt]

@@dbnst it is not english it is norwegian and it means north richdom!

[@TheYannir]

This video is riddled with factual mistakes and inaccuracies.

[@StepwaveMusic]

I don't know why but you kept saying 'Bohemia' for the coast of 'Bothnia'

[@annehersey9895]

I must disagree here. You stated that it was believed if not for Christian IV, Sweden would have pushed northwards and claimed Finmark. I think Russia would have done it.They were already up in that area so that is my guess for what it's worth. Good video, I've wondered about this myself!

[@flawyerlawyertv7454]

Great video. 😃✌️

[@videoturundus]

Nice to see drone shots from Tallinn, Estonia (07:12), as sometimes Estonians consider themselves also a part of Nordic ;)

[@comeconcon569]

The Lapland region of Finland is the closest point to the Arctic Circle where Santa Claus lives.

[@klaseniusproductions7591]

Had to stop watching after 3 minutes because of the inaccuracies. The map at 2:54 is NOT what Sweden looked like in 1200AD...

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

5:35 didn't finland also take advantage of the russian civil war and take the territory. because the Grand Duchy of Finland has no coast in artik So the Russians just took their territory back

[@williamgifford83]

Informative. Thank you but please improve your pronunciation. “Sammy” is so hard to hear for Sami.

[@hugoyu2001]

I thought the Arctic is frozen half of the year anyways, so it’s probably useless to Finland or Sweden anyways right?

[@Time.Traveller.]

Lithuanians are now feeling devastated. No one (virtually no one) considers them Scandinavians XD.

[@butterflies655]

No. Lithuania is a Baltic country.

[@ahha6304]

Why I keep hearing Bohemia throughout the video, am I watching Czechia video?

[@petefluffy7420]

Neither country could afford a seaside property.

[@scottscouter1065]

That dang ole' OOOO-CRANE invasion. LOL.