Northern Europe
Several classification systems, including the UN geoscheme, EuroVoc, the CIA World Factbook, and the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, employ regional groupings for statistical and administrative purposes, though they differ in which countries they assign to Northern Europe.[1][2][3][4] According to the UN geoscheme, the countries classified as Northern Europe are Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.[1]
Quick Facts
- Un geoscheme countries
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Norway
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
- Common religion
- Christianity (Roman Catholic, later spread to Scandinavia and Baltic)
- Regional cooperation
- Hansa group in the European Union
Facts from the source article.
Geography and history
The United Nations geoscheme was devised by the United Nations Statistics Division based on the M49 coding classification.[1][5] EuroVoc, a thesaurus maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union, includes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the Faroe Islands in northern Europe.[2] The CIA World Factbook classifies Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Faroe Islands, Jan Mayen, and Svalbard as northern Europe.[3] The World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions includes Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Åland, Faroe Islands, Isle of Man, Jan Mayen, and Svalbard in northern Europe.[4]
The Latin alphabet and Western Christianity spread northward from Rome, influencing written languages in the region.[6]
What the cited sources add
The UNSD methodology notes that Estonia was formerly part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics until 1991.[5] The UNSD methodology states that the Channel Islands were removed from the M49 regional groupings because they do not follow the scheme based on six continental regions.[5] The UNSD methodology explains that the regions of Europe and Asia were extended in the 3rd revision (1996) with new countries from the breakup of the USSR.[5] The UNSD methodology reports that the distinction between "Developed regions" and "Developing regions" was removed from M49 in December 2021.[5]
References
- Wikipedia, "Northern Europe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "UNSD — Methodology", unstats.un.org (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Northern Europe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Publications Office of the European Union, "EU Vocabularies 7206 Europe", EuroVoc (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Northern Europe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: CIA, "The World Factbook" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Northern Europe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Brummitt, "World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions", International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases For Plant Sciences (TDWG), 2001 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "UNSD — Methodology", unstats.un.org. facts only, no text reused. unstats.un.org
- Wikipedia, "Northern Europe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Celtic languages – Irish | Britannica", www.britannica.com; Mackenzie, "The Worthy Translator: How the Scottish Gaels got the Scriptures in their own Tongue", Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, 1990–1992, p. 168–202; Watkins, T. Arwyn (1993) "Welsh" in Ball, Martin J. with Fife, James (Eds) The Celtic Languages. London/New York: Routledge: 289–348. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
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