diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
index f96f2f8281f..5932012c535 100644
--- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ particular, the following variants typically exist:
 +-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
 | iso8859_3       | iso-8859-3, latin3, L3         | Esperanto, Maltese             |
 +-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
-| iso8859_4       | iso-8859-4, latin4, L4         | Baltic languages               |
+| iso8859_4       | iso-8859-4, latin4, L4         | Northern Europe                |
 +-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
 | iso8859_5       | iso-8859-5, cyrillic           | Belarusian, Bulgarian,         |
 |                 |                                | Macedonian, Russian, Serbian   |