What are you not suppose to average 10 yards of YAC ? <| sep |> Also Christmas . Love every one of them . <| sep |> You ' re correct . Everyone else here have already explained that . But you might want to understand that your friend is looking at this from a different angle . For example , it actually depends on the language you speak . Some languages don ' t differentiate between Scandinavia and Nordic , but recognize them as synonyms . Even modern English lexicons and thesaruses will tell the reader that Scandinavia in conversational English is more often used as an synonym for Nordic than its real meaning , e . g . MerriamWebster Definition of Nordic 1 . a native of northern Europe 2 . a person of Nordic physical type . , 3 . a member of the peoples of Scandinavia . AND Definition of Scandinavia 1 . peninsula N Europe occupied by Norway Sweden . , 2 . Denmark , Norway , Sweden sometimes also considered to include Iceland , the Faeroe Islands , Finland . It ' s not just English , lots of languages use Scandinavia when meaning Nordic . While this is wrong officially , we do this as well by saying Holland when talking about the entire Netherlands , or Great Britain when we mean the United Kingdom . I think it boils down to that the importance of terms is more important to us who live in the region than outsiders . Since the term Scandinavia is so much better known internationally , someone who actually knows the difference might still use Scandinavia instead of Nordic when talking to people who they expect might not be as knowledgeable .