Sweden
| Kingdom of Sweden
Konungariket Sverige
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| Motto: (Royal) "För Sverige i tiden"[a] "For Sweden – With the Times" |
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| Anthem: Du gamla, Du fria[b] Thou ancient, thou free Royal anthem: Kungssången The Song of the King |
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![Location of Sweden (dark green)– on the European continent (green & dark grey)– in the European Union (green) — [Legend]](/wiki/File:EU-Sweden.svg) Location of Sweden (dark green)
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| Capital (and largest city) |
Stockholm 59°21′N 18°4′E / 59.35°N 18.067°E |
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| Official language(s) | Swedish[c] | |||||
| Ethnic groups | 90.8% Swedes[1][d] ~3% Finns[2] ~1% other Nordics ~5,2% other (2011)[3][4] |
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| Demonym | Swedish or Swedes | |||||
| Government | Unitary parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy | |||||
| - | Monarch | King Carl XVI Gustaf | ||||
| - | Prime Minister | Fredrik Reinfeldt (M) | ||||
| - | Speaker of the Riksdag |
Per Westerberg (M) | ||||
| Legislature | Riksdag | |||||
| Consolidation | Middle Ages | |||||
| Area | ||||||
| - | Total | 449,964 km2 (57th) 173,745 sq mi |
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| - | Water (%) | 8.7 | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| - | 2011 census | 9,415,295[5] | ||||
| - | Density | 20.6/km2 (192nd) 53.8/sq mi |
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| GDP (PPP) | 2010 estimate | |||||
| - | Total | $337.893 billion[6] | ||||
| - | Per capita | $36,502[6] | ||||
| GDP (nominal) | 2010 estimate | |||||
| - | Total | $443.718 billion[6] | ||||
| - | Per capita | $47,934[6] | ||||
| Gini (2005) | 23 (low) | |||||
| HDI (2010) | ▲ 0.885[7] (very high) (9th) | |||||
| Currency | Swedish krona (SEK) |
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| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |||||
| - | Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||||
| Date formats | yyyy-mm-dd | |||||
| Drives on the | right[e] | |||||
| Internet TLD | .se[f] | |||||
| Calling code | 46 | |||||
| a. ^ För Sverige – I tiden has been adopted by Carl XVI Gustaf as his personal motto. b. ^ Du gamla, Du fria has never been officially adopted as national anthem, but is so by convention. |
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Sweden (Sverige in Swedish) is a Nordic country in the part of Europe called Scandinavia. Its neighbors are Finland and Norway. Sweden is also connected to Denmark in the south by a bridge. It belongs to the developed countries, and it is famous for its welfare state.
Sweden's capital city is Stockholm. Sweden is a constitutional monarchy because it has a king, Carl XVI Gustaf. Sweden is a parliamentary state meaning that the government is elected by the parliament which is appointed by the people. The country is democratically ruled by a government headed by an elected prime minister, who currently is Fredrik Reinfeldt.
The population of Sweden is almost 9.5 million people[12].
Sweden has an official majority language, Swedish (svenska). Sweden has five official minority languages, Finnish, Yiddish, Sami, Meänkieli and Romani.
Sweden became a member of the European Union in 1995. It is not a member of the European Monetary Union when the Swedish people voted no. The currency is the Swedish krona (Swedish crown).
Sweden has 25 provinces (landskap), found in 3 different regions: Norrland in the North, Svealand, the central region, and Götaland in the South.
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[change] Military
During many wars, including the Vietnam War and World War II, the country was neutral, meaning it did not take sides. During World War II, it sold supplies to both the British and the Germans in order to protect its neutrality.
[change] Religion
Sweden is one of the world's least religious countries. 46-85% of all people in Sweden are agnostics or atheists. This means they do not believe in a god.[13]
[change] Sports
Sweden is a country with many talents in sport, such as Zlatan Ibrahimović. They have two bronze medals and one silver medal from the World Cup in football (soccer) - 1950, 1958 and 1994. The soccer league in Sweden is called Allsvenskan - with Malmö (Malmoe) as the best team throughout all its years. Sweden is also one of the best performing nations in ice hockey together with USA, Canada, Finland, Russia and the Czech Republic. The Hockey league in Sweden is called Elitserien.Sweden has won the 2004 athens olympic game in ping-pong.That was Jan-Ove Waldner.He was a world best palayer in 2004 , such as Ma Lin who played against Waldner.
[change] References
- ↑ "Befolkningsstatistik". www.scb.se. http://www.scb.se/Pages/Product____25785.aspx?produktkod=BE0101&displaypressrelease=true&pressreleaseid=257212. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
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- ↑ Note that Swedish-speaking Finns or other Swedish-speakers born outside Sweden might self-identify as Swedish despite being born abroad. Moreover, people born within Sweden may not be ethnic Swedes.
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedpopulation - ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Sweden". International Monetary Fund. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2010/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?sy=2007&ey=2010&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=144&s=NGDPD%2CNGDPDPC%2CPPPGDP%2CPPPPC%2CLP&grp=0&a=&pr.x=10&pr.y=12. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
- ↑ "Human Development Report 2010". United Nations. 2010. http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Table1.pdf. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedSwedish2 - ↑ "Är svenskan också officiellt språk i Sverige?" (in Swedish). Språkrådet (Language Council of Sweden). 2008-02-01. http://www.sprakradet.se/servlet/GetDoc?meta_id=2119#item100400. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
- ↑ Summary of Population Statistics 1960 – 2008 – Statistics Sweden (proportion of foreign background, including foreign-born and Swedish-born with two foreign-born parents)
- ↑ http://www.scb.se/k
- ↑ Zuckerman, Phil (2007), Atheism: Contemporary Rates and Patterns PDF i Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-60367-6
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