The Impossible Geography of Scandinavia

✈️ Join me as I explore geography around the world and subscribe to my travel channel:    / @geolex.travels   -- 📖 Subscribe to my Substack! 👉 https://geographicgeoff.substack.com -- What if I told you that one of the cleanest, most pristine regions on Earth has to import garbage from other countries just to power its cities? Or that a country famous for its ancient Viking kings is actually ruled by the descendants of a French general? From the world's true island-hopping capital to the first Europeans to land in North America, here are 15 incredible geography facts you never knew about Scandinavia. -- Chapters: 0:00 - Scandinavia 0:26 - World’s Longest Road Tunnel 1:19 - The Land of 188,000 Lakes 2:12 - Flat Denmark 3:08 - A Fractal Coastline 4:03 - The "Island-Hopping" Capital 5:01 - Subscribe to My Travel Channel 5:52 - A French General Founded Sweden's Current Royal Dynasty 6:40 - Scandinavia Was Once United Under One Crown 7:27 - Vikings Were the First Europeans in North America 8:14 - Norway and Sweden Were a Single Country for 91 Years 9:03 - The Name "Scandinavia" Has a Murky Origin 9:51 - The Sámi are Europe's Only Recognized Indigenous People 10:40 - The Scandinavian Languages are Mutually Intelligible 11:30 - Sweden Imports Trash... on Purpose 12:18 - Consistently Ranks as the "Happiest" Region 13:11 - Some of the World's Biggest Coffee Drinkers -- 🌳 Find me: https://linktr.ee/geoffgibson 🗺️ Map store: https://mapsbygeoff.com -- Stock footage and music acquired from www.envato.com, www.storyblocks.com and videvo.net. If you think there's been an error in using a video clip, please contact me. This has been a production of Sound Bight Media (soundbight.com)