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Sweden - GENERAL INFORMATION
 
Population - Local time - Languages - Religion - Political system - Climate - Tourism - Food



Population



Main Cities Population
Stockholm   1,600,000  
Goteborg   761  
Malm?   498  
Uppsala   181  
Linkoping   130  
Norrkoping   122  



Total population (millions): 9
Source: World Bank 2004

Urban population: 83%
Source: World Bank 2004

Average annual population growth: 0.3%
Source: World Bank 2004

Surface area (km²) : 449,96


Population origin

Origin of the population% Of the population
Swedish90 %
Finnish3 %
Other7 %


Local time


It is %T:%M %A in Stockholm


GMT+1 in winter, GMT+2 in summer


Languages


Official language: Swedish.
Business language: Swedish and English, that Swede speek very well.

Free translation tools in Sweden :
Eurodicautom
The European Union Dictionary (12 languages avalaible)

Tranexp
Free English-Swedish-English translator of texts and web pages

Freedict.com
Free English-Swedish-English dictionary



Religion


Religious practises : Lutherian Protestants 94.8%
Catholics 1.6%
Others 3.6%.


Political system


Sweden is a parliamentary Constitutional monarchy.
The Riksdad is the single chamber in parliament. The 349 deputies are elected by direct universal suffrage, every 4 years, the thrid Sunday in September.
the government is mainly from SPD (Democrat Socialist Party). The Conservatiove party, second party in Sweden, is the main government oponent.
Sweden is divided in 24 administrative provinces (län), comprising 288 municipalities (kommuner).
Capital: Stockholm
Head of State: King Charles Gustave XVI, since Sepember 1976
Prime Minister: Goeran Persson, since March 21st 1996.


Climate

 


Tourism

Number of visitors in Sweden 2002 2003 2004 World rank
Number of visitors (1000) 2989   2952   3003   n.a.
Source : World Tourisme Organization, data available in November 2005

 

Tourist sites


-Ystad, well preserved medieval city with half-timbered houses.
-Morrum, mecca of the salmon fishing.
-Kalmar, old city and historic place with a very nice castle.
-The island of Oland.
-Motala, at the edge of the Gota Canal with the Varamobaden beaches on the Vattern lake.
The famous roads:
-The blue road
-The silver road
-Linne's road
-Kiruna's road
-The road of the Tornealv valley.

For more information about tourism in Sweden , check out the following web site(s) :
Swedish Travel & Tourism Council


Food-related taboos


There are no culinary taboos in Sweden.

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