Skandinaviey nazyvayut istoriko-kul"turnyy region Severnoy Evropy, vklyuchayushchiy v sebya ne tol"ko skandinavskie strany (Daniyu, Norvegiyu i Shvetsiyu), no takzhe Finlyandiyu i blizkuyu v yazykovom plane k skandinavskim stranam Islandiyu, to est", fakticheski, podrazumevaya pod nazvaniem «Skandinaviya» strany Severnoy Evropy. Strany Skandinavskogo regiona, po mneniyu ekspertov, obladayut bol"shim potentsialom v turisticheskoy otrasli, odnako otmechaetsya takzhe ekonomicheskiy potentsial regiona. Bol"she o Skandinavii, kul"turnykh, geograficheskikh i ekonomicheskikh osobennostyakh regiona, a takzhe otdel"nykh stran mozhno uznat", prochitav etu knigu.