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The Nordic region, or Norden, may be defined as consisting of the five sovereign states Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, plus the three…

There has been much more official involvement with the Nordic languages than with English. That is true even of the well-established Danish, Icelandic…

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• In Denmark the principal language is Danish, with about 5,750,000 speakers (in 2018), but varieties of German are spoken in…

The Nordic countries have a particular parliamentary culture characterised by consensus and working across party lines. Their parliaments remain…

The Arctic Council was established in 1996 by the Ottawa Declaration with the intent of fostering “cooperation, coordination, and interaction between…

A minority is a clearly distinguishable group or category of people who comprise less than half of a national population. Minorities in the Nordic…