Q. Since my friend moved to Finland, anything I see or hear about the country catches my attention. Recently, I read something that said Finland isn’t part of Scandinavia. Can you help me find a book that explains that?
A. We have a great collection of travel books so I pulled our copy of Rick Steves’ “Scandinavia.”
Steves writes: “We think of Finland as Scandinavian, but it’s better to call it ‘Nordic.’ Technically, the Scandinavian countries are Denmark, Sweden and Norway – all constitutional monarchies with closely related languages.
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