Fennia

Fennia is a historical Latin exonym associated with the region and country now known as Finland. The form appears in early modern European cartography and Latin-language geography to refer to the land inhabited by the Fenni, an ancient designation used by Roman and later writers for peoples in the Baltic-Northern landscape. In various maps and texts, Fennia functioned as the Latin counterpart to vernacular or vernacular-derived names for the area.

The use of Fennia reflects broader practices in which Latin toponyms were employed to label regions in scholarly and navigational works. Its appearance alongside other Latin forms such as Finlandia or Finland has varied by era, scribe, and publishing tradition. As a result, Fennia is primarily encountered today in historical studies, philology, and discussions of the historiography of cartography rather than as a contemporary geographic designation.

In modern contexts, there is no official or standard use of Fennia as the name of a current political entity. Finland is the modern nation, with Suomi as its local name, and Latin references in scientific or diplomatic settings often prefer Finlandia or simply Finland. Consequently, Fennia is regarded chiefly as a historical or literary term, notable for its role in the study of how European scholars historically named and mapped northern Europe.