Fennoscandia (; Bokmål: Fennoskandia; ; ), or Fenno-Scandinavia, is the region comprising the Scandinavian Peninsula, Finland, Karelia, and the Kola Peninsula. Thus, the term usually covers the countries Finland, Norway and Sweden in their entireties. It also includes a part of Russia. Its name comes from the Latin words Fennia (which means Finland) and Scandia (which means Scandinavia). The term was first used by the Finnish geologist Wilhelm Ramsay in 1900.