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The Finno-Ugric countries are the three independent nation states with a national majority that speaks a
Finno-Ugric language Finno-Ugric ( or ; ''Fenno-Ugric'') or Finno-Ugrian (''Fenno-Ugrian''), is a traditional grouping of all languages in the Uralic language family except the Samoyedic languages. Its formerly commonly accepted status as a subfamily of Uralic is ba ...
:
Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
and
Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
, which are inhabited by
Baltic Finnic peoples The Baltic Finnic or Balto-Finnic peoples, also referred to as the Baltic Sea Finns, Baltic Finns, sometimes Western Finnic and often simply as the Finnic peoples, are the peoples inhabiting the Baltic Sea region in Northern and Eastern Europe ...
, and
Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
, which is majority Magyar. The three countries are represented in the
Finno-Ugric Congress World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples is the representative forum of Finno-Ugric people, Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic people. The forum is not related to any government or political party. The goals of the forum is to "develop and protect national ide ...
. They work together in funding research on Finno-Ugric topics and in protecting the minority rights of other Finno-Ugric-speaking nations that do not occupy sovereign states; collectively these have been called Fenno-Ugria.


Modern entities


Independent sovereign states


Balto-Finnic


Ugric


Countries where Finno-Ugric languages have official or co-official status


Saami

The recently extinct
Livonian language The Livonian language ( liv, līvõ kēļ, link=no or ; et, liivi keel, link=yes) is a Finnic language whose native land is the Livonian Coast of the Gulf of Livonia, located in the north of the Kurzeme peninsula in Latvia. Although its last ...
has special though unofficial status in .


Ugric


Permic


Volgaic


Provinces and autonomous regions without official or co-official status


Historical states and dynasties


Hungarian states

Note: some of these countries, while not predominantly ethnically Hungarian, were ruled by Hungarians, so they are considered as such here.


Post-World War I states


Autonomous regions


See also

* World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples


References

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