Scandinavian diaspora - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Viking and Old Norse

Scandinavian refers to a resident of or something associated with Scandinavia, including:* Scandinavians, a Nordic ethnic group* Scandinavian Airlines , an aviation corporation* Scandinavian Defense, a chess opening...

explorations, conquests, and emigrations during the Viking expansion

Viking expansion

The Vikings sailed most of the North Atlantic, reaching south to North Africa and east to Russia, Constantinople and the Middle East, as looters, traders, colonists, and mercenaries...

Modern diaspora

The term "Scandinavian diaspora" is also used to describe more recent emigrations and emigrants originating in one or more of the countries of Scandinavia

Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

Swedish diaspora

It includes Swedish American

Swedish American

Swedish Americans are Americans of Swedish descent, especially the descendants of about 1.2 million immigrants from Sweden during 1885-1915. Most were Lutherans who affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ; some were Methodists...

s, Swedish Australian

Swedish Australian

Swedish Australians are Australians with Swedish heritage, most often related to the large groups of immigrants from Sweden in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. The 2006 census showed 30,375 who claimed Swedish ancestry...

s, Swedish Canadians and Swedish Britons

Swedes in the United Kingdom

Swedes in the United Kingdom are immigrants from Sweden living in the United Kingdom as well as their British-born descendants. Although only around 25,000 Swedish-born people live in the UK, millions of Britons have some degree of Scandinavian ancestry that dates back over 1,000 years to the...

as well as others.

Finnish diaspora

People emigrated to the United States

United States

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, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

and Brazil

Brazil

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Danish diaspora

They include Danish Americans, Danish Australian

Danish Australian

A Danish-Australian is an inhabitant of Australia with full or partial Danish ancestry, the majority of these people were part of the Danish diaspora. At the 2006 Census 8,963 Australian residents declared they were born in Denmark...

s and Danish Canadians.

Icelandic diaspora

They include Icelandic Americans, Icelandic Canadian

Icelandic Canadian

Canada has the largest ethnic Icelandic population outside Iceland, with about 88,875 people of Icelandic descent as of the Canada 2006 Census. Many Icelandic Canadians are descendants of people who fled an eruption of the Icelandic volcano Askja in 1875....

s and Icelandic Norwegians.

Norwegian diaspora

Emigrants became Kola Norwegians

Kola Norwegians

The Kola Norwegians were Norwegian settlers along the coastline of the Kola Peninsula in Russia.-History:In 1860 the Russian Tsar Alexander II granted permission for Norwegian settlements on the Kola. Around 1870, scores of families from Finnmark in northern Norway departed for the Kola coast,...

, Norwegian American

Norwegian American

Norwegian Americans are Americans of Norwegian descent. Norwegian immigrants went to the United States primarily in the later half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th century. There are more than 4.5 million Norwegian Americans according to the most recent U.S. census, and...

s, Norwegian Canadian

Norwegian Canadian

Norwegian Canadians are Canadians of Norwegian descent.There are approximately 1.2 million Canadians of Scandinavian descent living in Canada, representing around 3.9% of Canada’s population. In the Canada 2006 Census 432,515 Canadian residents claimed Norwegian ancestry, making up 1.4% of the...

s, Norwegian Australian

Norwegian Australian

Norwegian Australian are Australians of Norwegian ancestry, the majority of these people were part of the Norwegian diaspora.-History:An organized European immigration to Australia was initiated in 1788. Most of the early emigrants were deported from Britain to the "Penal Colony". Also some...

s, Norwegian New Zealander

Norwegian New Zealander

Norwegian New Zealander are New Zealanders of Norwegian ancestry, the majority of these people were part of the Norwegian diaspora. Around 10,000 New Zealand residents declared they were born in Norway...

s, and Norwegian South African

Norwegian South African

Norwegian South African are South Africans of Norwegian descent. When most Norwegian emigrants moved to America, some people also moved to South Africa, Madagascar, Angola, Mozambique, South America and Oceania. In 2008, only 24 Norwegians moved to South Africa...

s. The first modern Norwegian settlement in the United States

United States

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was Norwegian Ridge, in what is now Spring Grove, Minnesota

Spring Grove, Minnesota

Spring Grove is a city in Houston County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,330 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land...