For the province's modern administrative counterpart, Skåne län, the endonym Skåne is used in English. Scania (as also Dalarna) is one of the few Swedish provinces for which exonyms are widely used in many languages, such as French Scanie, Dutch and German Schonen, Polish Skania, Spanish Escania, Italian Scania, etc. Sometimes the endonym Skåne is used in English text, such as in tourist information, even sometimes as Skane with the diacritic omitted. The Latinized form Scania is an exonym in English. The endonym used in Swedish and other North Germanic languages is Skåne (formerly spelled Skaane in Danish and Norwegian). Scania has been an undisputed part of Sweden since 1720. Denmark regained control of the province (1676–1679) during the Scanian War and again briefly in 1711 during the Great Northern War. Historically, Scania formed part of the kingdom of Denmark until the signing of the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658. With 121 inh/km 2 Scania is the second-most densely populated province of Sweden. The population of over 1,320,000 represents 13% of the country's population. įrom north to south Scania is around 130 km it covers less than 3% of Sweden's total area. Scania forms part of the transnational Øresund Region. Since 2000, a road and railway bridge, the Öresund Bridge, bridges the Sound and connects Scania with Denmark. To the north, Scania borders the former provinces of Halland and Småland, to the northeast Blekinge, to the east and south the Baltic Sea, and to the west Öresund. Scania's largest city, Malmö, is the third-largest city in Sweden, as well as the fifth-largest in Scandinavia.
Within Scania there are 33 municipalities that are autonomous within the Skåne Regional Council.
Like the other former provinces of Sweden, Scania still features in colloquial speech and in cultural references, and can therefore not be regarded as an archaic concept. The former province is roughly conterminous with Skåne County, created in 1997. Scania, also known by its native name of Skåne ( Swedish: ( listen), Danish: ), is the southernmost of the historical provinces ( landskap) of Sweden.
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