Baltic region [SEP] located next to body of water
Baltic region
The terms Baltic region, Baltic Rim countries (or simply Baltic Rim), and the Baltic Sea countries refer to slightly different combinations of countries in the general area surrounding the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.
Etymology.
The first to name it the "Baltic Sea" (""Mare Balticum"") was eleventh century German chronicler Adam of Bremen. 
Denotation.
Depending on the context the "Baltic region" might stand for:
- The countries that have shorelines along the Baltic
at a line across southern Sweden to the northern shore of the Baltic countries. A connected body of water, the Ramsay Sea, stretched from the Danish islands region to the shores of Estonia. The Gulfs of Bothnia and Finland were still glaciated, as well as nearly all of Sweden north of Scania. In the Allerød warm period, rising land in the Denmark region created the Baltic Ice Lake. It egressed through a small channel in the Strait of Øresund. The lake was higher than sea level (which itself was lower