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‘STOCKHOLM’
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a constitutional monarchy
(royal power has long been limited to official and ceremonial functions)
(King Carl XVI Gustaf is head of state)
the economist intelligence unit, while acknowledging that democracy is difficult to measure, listed sweden in first place in its index of democracy assessing 167 countries
Sweden is a unitary state, currently divided into HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_Sweden” \o “Counties of Sweden” twenty-one counties ( HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A4n” \o “Län” län): HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_County” \o “Stockholm County” Stockholm, HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppsala_County” \o “Uppsala County” Uppsala, HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6dermanland_County” \o “Södermanland County” Södermanland, HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96sterg%C3%B6tland_County” \o “Östergötland County” Östergötland, HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6nk%C3%B6ping_County” \o “Jönköping County” Jönköping, HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronoberg_County” \o “Kronoberg County” Kronoberg, HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmar_County” \o “Kalmar County” Kalmar, HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland_County” \o “Gotland County” Gotland, HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blekinge_County” \o “Blekinge County” Blekinge, HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sk%C3%A5ne_County” \o “Skåne County” Skåne, Halland, Västra Götaland, Värmland, Örebro, Västmanland, Dalarna, Gävleborg, Västernorrland, Jämtland, Västerbotten, and Norrbotten
the official language of Sweden is Swedish, a North Germanic language, related and very similar to Danish and Norwegian, but differing in pronunciation and orthography.
Norwegians have little difficulty understanding Swedish, and Danes can also understand it, with slightly more difficulty than the Norwegians. HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Finns” \o “Sweden Finns” Sweden Finns are Sweden’s largest linguistic minority[ HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed” \o “Wikipedia:Citation needed” citation needed], comprising about 3% of Sweden’s population and HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language” \o “Finnish language” Finnish is recognized as a minority language
In varying degrees, depending largely on frequency of interaction with English, a majority of Swedes, especially those born after World War II, understand and speak HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language” \o “English language” English due to trade links, the popularity of overseas travel, a strong Anglo-American influence and the tradition of HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtitle_%28captioning%29” \o “Subtitle (captioning)” subtitling rather than dubbing foreign television shows and films, and the relative similarity of the two languages which makes learning English easier.
English became a compulsory subject for HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_education” \o “Secondary education” secondary school students studying HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_science” \o “Natural science” natural sciences as early as 1849, and has been a compulsory subject for all Swedish students since the late 1940s. HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden” \l “cite_note-126” [127] Depending on the local school authorities, English is currently a compulsory subject between HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_grade” \o “First grade” first grade and HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_grade” \o “Ninth grade” ninth grade, with all students continuing in secondary school studying English for at least another year. Most students also study one and sometimes two additional languages. These include (but are not limited to) HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language” \o “German language” German, HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language” \o “French language” French, and HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language” \o “Spanish language” Spanish. Some HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language” \o “Danish language” Danish and HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_language” \o “Norwegian language” Norwegian is at times also taught as part of Swedish courses for native speakers
Carl XVI Gustaf (Christian name: Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus, born April 30, 1946), has been King of Sweden since September 15, 1973, when his grandfather Gustaf VI Adolf died
His father Prince Gustaf Adolf was killed in an airplane crash on the afternoon of 26 January 1947, at Copenhagen Airport, Denmark
Victoria was born on 14 July 1977 in Stockholm and is the eldest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia
heiress-apparent to the Swedish throne. If she ascends to the throne as expected, she will be Sweden’s fourth queen regnant (after Margaret, Christina, and Ulrika Eleonora)
Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland (Swedish: Prins Daniel av Sverige, Hertig av Västergötland, HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9” \o “Né” né Olof Daniel Westling; born 15 September 1973) is the husband of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden. Prior to his marriage to the heiress apparent, Daniel was a personal trainer and gym owner and ran a company called Balance Training with three gyms in central Stockholm
(the best guitar shredders are swedish)
(ala yngwie malstreem)
(as well as the best bikini models)
(ala victoria silvstedt)
(who gave richie sambora a blowjob at age 15)
(good for him!)
(as she confessed on ‘howard stern’ on E!)
“gävle goat”
located at slottstorget (“castle square”) in central gävle
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*24 december 2009*
the 13-metre (43 ft) high yule goat is burnt down in the 24th such arson attack since 1966…
gee, rabble-rousers are getting real desperate in these postmodern times, aren’t they?
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥