Baltoscandia

Baltoscandia or the Baltoscandian Confederation is a geopolitical concept of a Baltic–Scandinavian (Nordic) union comprising Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden.

Pakštas states in his book The Baltoscandian Confederation that the term Baltoscandia was first used by Sten de Geer in an article in "Geografiska Annaler" in 1928.

[5] Kazys Pakštas proposed that one of the ways for the small nations to withstand the influence coming from the large ones is to unite and to cooperate more closely among each other.

It was founded on 17 November 1991 as the institute of science researches which regularly organizes arrangements dealing with Baltic and Scandinavian cultural, historical and political contacts.

The Nordic-Baltic Eight or NB8, where 8 stands for the number of countries (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden).

Location of the Baltic states and the Nordic countries :
Baltic states
Nordic countries
Language branches in Northern Europe
Baltic (Latvia and Lithuania)
Finnic (Estonia and Finland)
North Germanic (Denmark, the Faroe Islands , Iceland, Norway, and Sweden)
Euler diagram indicating Baltoscandia among other subregions of Northern Europe