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Sweden
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What is it ?
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In swedish : Sverige
Main informations
Sweden is a country in northern Europe. Its superficy is 450000 Km² (France = 549000Km²).
Population : 9 Mo (France = 60 Mo), essentially grouped in the south, in the cities.
The capital is Stockholm. And it said "Stockholm's syndrom"! And not from Helsinki
as said in the american movie (with Bruce Willis) "Die Hard".
The main cities are Malmö and Göteborg.
The currency : krona (swedish crown).
Geographically
The country lies between Norway in the west, Finland in the east and
north, and Denmark in the south. It is bathed by the Baltic in the
south and the Gulf of Bothnia in the east.
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Map
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It is a vast country, formed especially of tables dropping west
towards the east. The area of the southernmost is made up of
plains and strongly hurbanized lakes. Industries profit from the
extension of the forest (industry of wood) which covers about half of
the territory, and from the presence of iron, and hydraulics. Agriculture
satisfies the majority of the national needs.
Institution
Sweden is a parliamentary monarchy. Constitution of 1975, the
sovereign has only one authority symbolic system, and the Parliament
is monocaméral, and called the "Riksdag".
A few pictures
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Modified
11-Mar-2009
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