Things you didn't know about Sweden

Discussion in 'Sweden' started by Just_me, Mar 6, 2011.

  1. Just_me Well-Known Member

    During summer we have (around May to August/September) +20 degrees celsius to +35 degrees celsius depending on where you live. After that it gets colder and colder for every month.

    Wintertime there is law wintertyres must be used from 1st December to 31 of March.
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  2. Just_me Well-Known Member

    We have our very own fighterplane, JAS 39

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  3. Just_me Well-Known Member

    We also have our own supercar - Koenigsegg

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  4. Beemer B773ER Well-Known Member

    Is there any meaning/symbolism to your flag ? :)

    Does it symbolize the blonde hair and blue-eyed bombshells you have over there ? ;)
  5. Just_me Well-Known Member

    Well, not sure but I found this on wikipedia

    The flag of Sweden is a Scandinavian cross that extends to the edges of the flag. This Scandinavian cross represents Christianity.[2][3] The design and colours of the Swedish flag are believed to have been inspired by the present Coat of arms of Sweden of 1442, which is blue divided quarterly by a cross pattée of gold, and modelled on the Danish flag.[4] Blue and yellow have been used as Swedish colours at least since king Magnus Birgersson's royal coat of arms of 1275.

    Flag of Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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  6. ateekt Well-Known Member

    Interesting part of the world that country is. It has always been on my to-do list for visit one day, if I ever could. :D
  7. Bartek S. Contributing Member

    Nice thread my friend, and did you know that in the 17th century, one could travel from Poland to Sweden in a sleigh right across the frozen Baltic Sea? ...they even had makeshift taverns put up half way. (y)
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  8. Yperion Well-Known Member

    Sweeden is a great country , if you had as much sun as Greece i would move up there in an instant.:D
  9. Just_me Well-Known Member

    How could I forget our royals - The King and The Queen and their family

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    Our beautiful and sexy princesse Madelene (age: 29)
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  10. LaArtist Premium Member

    More swedish things:

    SKF (Worlds largest bearing maker)
    Tetra Pak ;)
    Atlas Copco
    ABB
    Scania
    Astra Zeneca
    ARLA ( Part Danish)
    Akzo Nobel ( Part Dutch)
    Assa Abloy (largest lock manufacturer in the world)
    Electrolux
    Hasselblad
    Husqvarna
    Metro ( the news-paper)
    SAS Airlines ( Swedish-Norweigan-danish)
    Stena Ferrys
    Stora Enso (Paper manufacturer)
    Trelleborg AB
    Bofors ( weapons )
    Pharmacia Upjohn ( the Pharmacia part)


    :)
  11. ctsurewin Member

    Nice list!
    Part of Bofors is owned by the real Saab (Not automobile) and the other part by BAE-systems.
  12. LaArtist Premium Member

    ^yep there are mergers in that list..or companys that moved their Hq abroad..but essentially they are swedish or half swedish:)
  13. Padi Well-Known Member

    Krhm. Abloy coming from Ab Lukko (Finnish for lock) Oy..
  14. MikeJ Global Moderator

    True, but Assa Abloy's headquarters are in Stockholm. There's one company in that list with HQ in Finland, though, and that's Stora Enso.
  15. LaArtist Premium Member

    The Assa Abloy Group is a Swedish lock manufacturer, the world's largest by sales.[2] Assa Abloy was formed in 1994 when ASSA AB was detached from Swedish security firm Securitas AB. Shortly thereafter the Finnish high-security lock manufacturer Abloy Oy (a subsidiary of the Finnish company Wärtsilä) was acquired.

    And Stora Enso:

    Stora Enso Oyj is a Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer, formed by the merger of Swedish mining and forestry products company Stora and Finnish forestry products company Enso-Gutzeit Oy in 1998.

    like i said some of the companys on the list are mergers or have moved outside sweden;)
  16. Padi Well-Known Member

    Yeah I meant Finnish-Swedish but ofc it's leaning more on the Swedish side. Didn't notice Stora Enso though :) Anyway got to say that I love Sweden, even though they always somehow sneak out of the wars :D
  17. ///K Well-Known Member

    Swedish House Mafia
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  18. ZicZachZo Active Member

    I'm one of the 10 million people of Swedish descent... I sleep on IKEA sheets and I have an affinity for Swedish designed furniture and also generally like Swedish cars. My only complaint about Swedes/Nordic people is the large number of them that smoke outside in cloisters around my uni.
  19. Padi Well-Known Member

    Oh yeah, you have forgot big clothing brands too, f.e. Peak Performance, H&M, Mango, Gant and Björn Borg.
  20. Gullwing Well-Known Member

    Norway is better than Sweden!


    And I should know my great great great somethings were Norwegian royalty :bowdown:

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