• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• Iceland
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Norway
• Sweden

Capital: Copenhagen
Language: Danish
Population: 5 300 000
Religion: Lutheran

Industries: chemicals, food, furniture, electronics, machinery.

Agriculture products: dairy products, vegetables, livestock.

Generally speaking:
• Denmark is Kingdom, The Kingdom of Denmark.
• The Greenland and Faroe Islands are autonomous provinces of Denmark.
• From 8th to 11th century, the Danes were known as Vikings, along with Norwegians and some others. Viking explorers first discovered and settled Iceland in the 9th century, also Greenland and landed in North America, in Newfoundland (today province in Canada).
• In the winter sunrise is coming in Denmark at around 9:30 A.M. and sunset at 4:30 P.M., but summer days are stretching from 3:30 A.M. until sunset at 10:00 P.M.

Capital: Tallinn
Language: Estonian
Population: 1 400 000
Religion: Evangelical Lutheran, Russian Orthodox
Gained Independence: 1994 from Russia

Industries: furniture, food, machinery, textiles.

Agriculture products: dairy products, livestock, crops.

Capital: Helsinki
Language: Finnish
Population: 5 200 000
Religion: Lutheran

Industries: chemicals, machinery, wood and paper, furniture.

Agriculture products: dairy products, livestock.

Capital: Reykjavik
Language: Icelandic
Population: 280 000
Religion: Lutheran

Industries: fishing and seafood processing, aluminum, tourism.

Agriculture products: seafood, wool.

Generally speaking:
• The first settler who made his home in Iceland, where Reykjavik now stands was a Norwegian Viking, Ingolfur Arnarson, around 874 AD.
• Iceland is a geologically young land. It’s location places Iceland in geologically very active part of North Atlantic Ocean. For that reason Iceland has numerous volcanoes and geysers.
• 11% of the Iceland is covered by glaciers.

Capital: Riga
Language: Latvian
Population: 2 400 000
Religion: Lutheran, Roman Catholic

Industries: paper, textiles, metal.

Agriculture products: seafood, vegetables.

Generally speaking:
• Capital city of Latvia is Riga. Historic Center of Riga has been declared an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• Latvia’s highest peak is the Gaiziņkalns at 312 meters (1 020 ft.). Latvia is fertile plain mostly covered by forest.

Capital: Vilnius
Language: Lithuanian, Russian
Population: 3 700 000
Religion: Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant, Orthodox

Industries: chemicals, food, oil refining, textiles.

Agriculture products: dairy products, livestock, meat.

Capital: Oslo
Language: Norwegian
Population: 4 500 000
Religion: Lutheran

Industries: chemical, electronics, food, natural gas, tourism.

Agriculture products: dairy products, seafood, livestock.

Capital: Stockholm
Language: Swedish
Population: 8 900 000
Religion: Lutheran, Roman Catholic

Industries: automobiles, chemical, food, furniture, machinery, paper.

Agriculture products: grains, livestock.

Generally speaking:
• Scandinavian country of Sweden is officially the Kingdom of Sweden.
• Once upon a time Swedes were Vikings (from around 8th and 11th century AD).
• The highest mountain peak in Sweden is Kebnekaise at 2 111 meters (6 926 ft.).
• Part of Sweden lies inside of the Arctic Circle.