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Sweden

A country that has a tradition of neutrality in the event of war has been spared from war since 1814; Sweden has maintained a characteristic of very high status within the world now. Some even consider Sweden to have a utopian society due to its low unemployment, low birthrate, and the world’s highest life expectancy rates.Sweden has a population of about 8, 857, 000 people, and with only 1,625,000 people in its largest city. Another one of Sweden’s most populated cities, Gteborg, has about 783,000 inhabitants, and another major city of Sweden is Malm, 515,000 people. Sweden’s population is just right around the area of New Jersey’s. With one of the highest life expectancies the world has, the fertility level of 1.5 children per woman was the lowest for Sweden ever recorded, yet still above average in Europe. The main language spoken in Sweden is Swedish. Swedish is a Germanic language, which has historically been the mother tongue of nearly the entire population, and almost 90 % of native Swedes belong to the Church of Sweden. The Church of Sweden has been the State church for nearly 500 years. The ethnic diversity of the area differs from the surrounding territories. The predominate religion of the area are the Christian Protestants. Sweden has a higher immigration than emigration. But most of the immigrants are Swedish people returning home. Today roughly 18 % of Swedish residents are foreign – born or have at least one non-native parent. Sweden has two minority groups of native inhabitants: the Finnish-speaking people of the northeast, along the Finnish border (about 30,000) and the Sami population of about 17,000. The Sami are scattered throughout the northern Swedish interior and in nearby northerly areas of Norway, Finland and Russia, numbering between 50,000 and 60,000 in all.The location of Sweden is located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in northern Europe. With over 100,000 lake...

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