Sweden is the fourth largest country in Europe with an area of 44,994 square kilometers in northern Europe. There are some interesting facts about this country, some of which we will introduce to you here:
- The Swedish government pays $ 187 a month to every elementary school student!
- In 1979, corporal punishment of children was outlawed in Sweden!
- There is a “Charles III” in Swedish history, but there is no “Charles I and II”!
- There is a golf club on the Swedish-Finnish border, half of which is in Sweden and the other half in Finland!
- 89% of Swedes speak English.
- The use of children under the age of 12 in Sweden and Norway is illegal in advertising.
- Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, is built on 14 islands and the city center is almost on the water!
- Abortion is legal in Sweden because of its gender!
- From the Middle Ages until 1809, Finland was part of Sweden!
- Garbage is running low in Sweden, which is why the country imports garbage from Norway!
- Until 2009, Swedish was not the official language of this country!
- Every year since 1966, a goat mat has been made in Gävle, Sweden, for Christmas, and its saboteurs burn it almost every year.
- Passports from Sweden, the United Kingdom and Finland allow people to travel to most countries with a free visa.
- In Sweden, parents can take advantage of 480 days of parental leave when they have a child or adopt a child.
- One citizen is randomly selected each week to manage Sweden’s official Twitter page.
- King Charles XIV of Sweden had the text “Death to Kings” tattooed on his body!
- In Sweden 87% of adults have a high school diploma.
- To promote public safety, Volvo Sweden has waived the patent of a car seat belt and made it available to other car manufacturers free of charge. Seat belts save one person every 6 minutes.
- From 1814 to 1905, Sweden and Norway formed the United Kingdom.
- There are free universities in Sweden, Finland, Austria, Norway and Germany, and it also allows international students who are fluent in English to find suitable jobs.
- The cyclist rode his bicycle from Sweden to Everest and tried to climb the peak. He returned from a 91-meter peak.
- In Sweden, no one can name their child “Ikea” or “Elvis”.
- In 1954, archaeologists excavated a Viking settlement and found a Buddhist statue from India.
- Sweden has the largest solar system in the world. The system is on a scale of 1:20 million and stretches 950 km from Sweden.
- When someone donates blood in Sweden, they first receive a text entitled “Thank you”. But when this blood is used to help and save someone, another text is sent back to the donor!
- Only one of Sweden’s top 20 surnames does not end in “son”.
- Sweden has more non-natives than the United States.
- September 3, 1967 was Dagen H Day in Sweden; On this day, the traffic was changed from driving on the left side of the street to driving on the right side of the street.
- In 1947, Kim Il Sung took 1,000 Swedish Volvo passenger cars to North Korea and never paid for them!
- In 1766, Sweden became the first country in the world to draft a constitution to abolish censorship.
- According to reports from the Swedish Statistics Office, in the 19th century, 380 children were strangled by their mothers or nurses every year!
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