this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2026
366 points (97.7% liked)
Map Enthusiasts
6379 readers
168 users here now
For the map enthused!
Rules:
-
post relevant content: interesting, informative, and/or pretty maps
-
be nice
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Fun little triangle there between Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Its funny cause then when youre talking about estonia youre suddenly buddies with finland again cause "estonia is basically eastern europe"
Finnish and Estonian languages are closely related. Unlike Finnish and other Nordic languages.
Yup, i liv in sweden and im hungarian so i know my stuff with uralic languages. I think its mainly about estonia not being on the peninsula, but neither is denmark. The absolute most northern part of denmark is about as north as the mosy southern part of estonia and also estonia is seperate from latvia and lithuania as those are balto-slavic while estonia is uralic as mentioned previously which puts it with finnish and sami in northern europe. Estonia is also very modern and has a well oiled welfare system(at least from the outside, would gladly hear the opinion of an estonian) so all of these make estonia feel pretty nordic.
Afaik from Helsinki to Tallinn it's like thirty minutes on a ferry, so even tourists tend to visit the latter together with the former. (Which, I now realize, I failed to think of when sitting in Helsinki not knowing what else to do.)
I like looking at these kinds of maps and finding the stable spots.
Norway -> Denmark -> Sweden -> Norway is one.
There's also Switzerland -> France -> Switzerland.
The UK escapes being part of one of those cycles by choosing a country that's off the map as their escape.