Nordic model
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The Nordic model comprises the economic and social policies as well as typical cultural practices common in the Nordic countries. This includes a comprehensive welfare state and multi-level collective bargaining based on the economic foundations of social corporatism, and a commitment to private ownership within a market-based mixed economy – with Norway being a partial exception due to a large number of state-owned enterprises and state ownership in publicly listed firms.
Flags of the Nordic countries, from left to right: Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark
Vote percentage over time of the main social democratic parties in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Norway Labour Party (Norway) Swedish Social Democratic Party Social Democrats (Denmark) Social Democratic Party of Finland
Nordic countries
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The Nordic countries are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic. It includes the sovereign states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden; the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland; and the autonomous region of Åland.
Effigy of Queen Margaret, founder and ruler of the Kalmar Union
Nordic prime ministers at the Nordic Council meeting in 2014 in Stockholm
The Öresund Bridge between Malmö in Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark
Share of total area in the Nordic countries in 2012