Regional Things you didn't know about Sweden

[Zafiro]

Just Me, I am sure I could research this but I'd prefer to get an answer directly from a local, like you. How is the weather there year round? I'd presume it gets very very cold, but what are summers like?

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.

 

[Zafiro]

We have our very own fighterplane, JAS 39

 

[Zafiro]

We also have our own supercar - Koenigsegg

 

[Beemer B773ER]

Is there any meaning/symbolism to your flag ?

Does it symbolize the blonde hair and blue-eyed bombshells you have over there ?

 

[Zafiro]

Is there any meaning/symbolism to your flag ?

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

 

[ateekt]

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.

 

[Bartek S.]

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.

 

[Yperion]

Sweeden is a great country , if you had as much sun as Greece i would move up there in an instant.

 

[Zafiro]

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


Our beautiful and sexy princesse Madelene (age: 29)

 

[LaArtist]

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)

 

[ctsurewin]

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

 

[LaArtist]

^yep there are mergers in that list..or companys that moved their Hq abroad..but essentially they are swedish or half swedish

 

[Padi]

More swedish things:

Assa Abloy (largest lock manufacturer in the world)

Krhm. Abloy coming from Ab Lukko (Finnish for lock) Oy..

 

[MikeJ]

Krhm. Abloy coming from Ab Lukko (Finnish for lock) Oy..

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.

 

[LaArtist]

Krhm. Abloy coming from Ab Lukko (Finnish for lock) Oy..

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

 

[Padi]

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

 

[///K]

Swedish House Mafia

 

[ZicZachZo]

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.

 

[Padi]

Oh yeah, you have forgot big clothing brands too, f.e. Peak Performance, H&M, Mango, Gant and Björn Borg.

 

[Gullwing]

Norway is better than Sweden!


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