Malmö

Malmö

Malmö is the third largest city in Sweden, located at Öresund were its neighbour, Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark lies at the other side. Malmö is reffered as the most dangerous city in Sweden with alot higher criminality than in both Göteborg and Stockholm. Bechause of its location, close to the continental Europe, many large groups of immigrants have came to live here. This caused that many nazi groups are active here, and right-hand populistic parties have became very popular in the politic. Malmö is otherwise a multicultural city. The most fameous building in the city is the Turning Torso, a large twisted tower that was ment to be for offices, but bechause of the expensive price that costed to build it resulted in that Turning Torso now is a place for apartments and living... expencive apartments.

Skåne

Skåne, the most southern province of Sweden, sometimes called the "bloodiest place in Europe" cause of its history. No other place have ever been occupied as many times as Skåne, as it switch country between Sweden and Denmark. The accent of the people in Skåne is very different from other accents in Sweden and have many similarities with danish. In Denmark some people call the scanian accent for "eastern danish" while its sometimes (more often) is referred as "southern swedish". Even today there is danish historians, scientists and even a politician that say it would be more natural if Skåne again would belong to Denmark, some people in Stockholm actually agree with this.

However, Skåne is the province were Sweden's third largest city is located, Malmö wich is connected to the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen, via the Öresund Bridge (Öresundsbron) wich is the longest bridge in Europe. The distance between Sweden and Denmark in this area is sometimes so small that its possible to the the neignoring country from the other side, not lookint that far away at all, and between Helsingborg, Sweden and Helsingör, Denmark the trips with ferries only take about 15 minutes. Many swedish people preffer to work in Copenhagen cause the money they win there is more, and many danish people preffer to live in Sweden cause the apartments and houses are cheaper there. This comminucation over the sea has developed almost like a city, and sometimes Malmö+Copenhagen is called Örestad (Öre-town).

The two parts of Öland

Mörbylånga

Mörbylånga is the municipality located on the southern half of Öland. Ölandsbron, the bridge wich connect Öland to Småland is located here and leads strait to Kalmar, the residential city of this region. In Mörbylånga there is also to see the Öland Zoo (Ölands Djurpark).

Ölandsbron

Ölands Djurpark

Borgholm

Borgholm municipality is located at the northern half of Öland. It is here were the Borgholm Castle Ruin lies outside the town of Borgholm. It is also here the Solliden Castle is located, surrounded by great gardens of trees and flowers.

Borgholm Castle Ruin

Solliden Castle

Öland

Öland is the second largest island of Sweden, and the second island-province. Öland is a very slim island and close to the shore of Småland. It is connected with the mainpland by the Ölandsbron, second largest bridge in Sweden (or first largest if we only count the swedish part of Öresundsbron). In opposite to Gotland, Öland is not a län, in fact Öland is a part of Kalmar län.

Öland is fameous for its many windmills, there is no other place in the country were so many windmills is to be seen as in Öland.

The island is seperated in two municipalities, in the south it is Mörbylånga municipality and in the north it is Borgholm municipality. Outside the town of Borgholm lies the old Borgholm Castle Ruin and not far from there the royal summer palace Solliden Castle were the royal family lives at summer and were Crown Princess Victoria in tradition always celebrate her birthday. In the south, in Mörbylånga municipality there is the theme park/zoo called Ölands

Djurpark wich is very fameous.

Television in Sweden

Television in Sweden was long limited to only one tv channel until the year 1969 came and TV2 started to send. These two channels were both public service wich mean they get their money from the state and from all those people who have tv at home and thereby are forced to pay the obligatoric tv-livence tax. Comercial in Sweden was thereby and still today forbidden by the law. First 1988 when TV3 started to send the swedish people could see comercial in tv. The studio of TV is within Sweden, but bechause of the law, they send from London, wich means this channel is a brittish tv-channel in swedish. Thanks to this TV3 can avoid the Swedish law that ban comercial in tv. TV4 is a very unique tv channel, it is sent from Sweden and is public service, but still they manage to send comercial, wich is the only fully swedish public service channel that is allowed to send tv comercial. Today the swedes can watch as many tv channels as any other West European country. This is the nine tv channels that follow each other in numeriologic line.

SVT 1, the first tv-channel in Sweden, owned by the public-servie company of SVT (Sveriges Television). SVT has many other tv channels like SVT2 (before called TV2) and SVT B, SVT Europa, UR, Kunskapskanalen and SVT24.

SVT2, once called TV2, is the second tv channel in Sweden, also owned by the company SVT. At its start, this channel only sent one film each day to differ it from the first channel that was more focused in culture and news broadcasting.

TV3, the third tv-channel in Sweden that start to send the year 1988. This is also the first tv-channel sent in Sweden were comercial was to be seen. It is owned by the comercialistic company MTG and is sent from United Kingdom. TV3 have many sister channels like TV6, ZTV, TV8, VIASAT NATURE, VIASAT ACTION, TV1000 and many others.

TV4, a tv-channel sent from Sweden, owned by the company TV4 AB. This channel was unique bechause its a hybrid between public-service channel and comercialistic channel. It was very fortunate and the company today owns many other tv channels wich all is more or less clones of TV4, like TV4 PLUS, TV400, TV4 Film, TV4 Fakta, TV4 Guld, TV4 Sport, TV4 Komedi, TV4 Science Fiction.

Kanal 5, the fifth tv-channel, owned by SBS Broadcasting, its sent from London to Sweden. Its sister channel is Kanal 9.


TV6, sister channel to TV3 and owned by MTG.

TV7, a new tv channel, owned by the old swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. The newspaper, Aftonbladet have been existing since the year 1811. Aftonbladet today is owned by LO, a workers union.




TV8 is a sister channel to TV6 and TV3 and is also sent from London. It started to send 1997 and was later owned by MTG.

Kanal 9 is a sister channel to Kanal 5, sent from London but owned by the German company ProSiebenSat. 1 Media.

Photos of Visby

Visby

Visby is the residential city/capital of Gotland. The city is surrounded by a medieval city wall, (Visby Ringmur). Many buildings of the town is very old and therefore it has been added to the UNCESCO list of world heritage.

Ruins in Visby

Visby town
Visby City Wall

Gotland

The province of Gotland is an island in the Baltic Sea belonging to Sweden. It is the largest island in Sweden and the largest island in the Baltic Sea.

The island have long been isolated from the mainland, and long time ago the population here had their own language, Gutnish that was only spoken on Gotland.

The island have been controlled by many states, by Denmark, bry Germany and today Sweden. The capital of Gotland is Visby and was a member of the medieval hansa-alliance wich "main city" was Lübeck in Germany.

Visby is surrounded by a medieval city wall even today.

Gotland island have 57 000 inhabitants.

Photos of Stockholm

Sergels Square with the glass obelisk
Old Town
Stadshuset
Sergels Square with the glass obelisk

Stockholm

Stockholm

The capital city of Sweden, this is the real center of Sweden. This is were the governement has its seat, the Riksdag, were all political matter has its heart. This is also were the royal castle is were the King and Queen are living. This is also the center of fashion in Sweden, and also the center of media were all tv-channels have its head seats. Stocholm has actually a very unique status and almost every organization of any kind in national level, have its seat just in Stockholm and no were else. With a population with more than 1 million citizens this is with no doubt the largest city in Sweden and in the Nordic, well, with some competition from Copenhagen that sometimes claims to be larger and as well as Stockholm, they both compete of the title as "The Nordic Capital".

Stockholm is a city on many islands and have many bridges, it has its nickname as the Nordic Venice and has a yearly water festival.

In Stockholm there is many buildings worth to see, Stadshuset (The Townhall) for exemple is a very common motive in the skyline of the city. The old town, the royal castle, the parlament or the Riksdag in swedish. While i Stockholm a visit in the amusement park Gröna Lund is also worth a visit.

Stockholm is sometimes concidered to be the most beautiful capital city of Europe, and its a shameful pity that I have not been there myself yet.

Uppsala

Uppsala

Uppsala, a big city in Uppland, and the residental city of Uppsala län. It is fameous to be a university city, the oldest university city in the all Nordic actually. Uppsala has a population of 128 000 citizens and there by is the 4:th largest city in Sweden after Stockholm, Göteborg, and Malmö.

Uppsala was once upon a time the capital city of Svithjod, and here was a temple, Uppsala Temple were the people went to worship the ancient Aesir gods. The temple however was burned down after the time Sweden became christian in the medieval time.

Uppsala is probably most fameous for the cathedral, Uppsala Domkyrka wich is very common seen in the skyline of the city.

Uppland

Uppland has always been the ruling land of Sweden. It was here the swedish society has its roots and its here the power almost always have had its seat. It began before the viking era, when the rest of Europe was ruled by the Roman Empire, an ancient kingdom was created in the valley of lake Mälaren, called Svithjod. Svithjod was placed were Uppland is today, and was divided in four provinces, Tiundaland, Attundaland, Fjärdhundraland and Sjöland. It was in Tiundaland the capital, Uppsala was.

When the Kingdom of Sweden was created after Götaland was included with Svealand, this area continued to be the head of the land, but the capital was moved to Stockholm.

The modern capital, Stockholm, is by the way divided between Uppland and Södermanland, and Uppland has like the other provinces lost its political status to the län long time ago. Uppland today is replaced with Uppsala län, that has the same shield as the province.

Towns in Lappland

Kiruna

The most northern municipality in Sweden, and the largest to its size. Kiruna is also concidered to have the second largest town area in the world after Mount Isa in Australia. In the beginning of the last century, 65% of the population were speaking finnish, 24% sami and only 11% were speaking swedish.

Dorotea

Dorotea is a municipality in the southern part of Lappland. The village, Dorotea has a population of 1571 people.

Jokkmokk

This municipality is in the more northern part of Lappland, Jokkmokk has a population of 2976. The town of Jokkmokk's name has also been the source of the japanese company Yoku Moku who sell cookies and delicates in Japan but also USA. The owner of the company, Noriichi Fujinawa visitek Jokkmokk once and loved the village for its architecuture and population, so he decided to name his company after this town, Jokkmokk = Yoku Moku.

Pictures of Lappland

Torneträsk with Lapporten behind

Kiruna, downtown



Kebnekaise at winter







Kebnekaise

Lappporten, the gate to Lappland

Lappland

Lappland is the most northern province in Sweden and also the largest. Its placed far up in Norrland. The name, Lappland was given to the province after the indigenious population, the sami. The old word for sami was lapp (today seen as a humiliating word), and therefore the name Lappland.

There is also a province in Finland with the name Lappland too, cause before when Finland belonged to Sweden, the province covered all the northern part of the Swedish Empire, but after the war with Russia, Lappland also was divided in two parts one swedish and one russian (today finnish).

The population is very small, only around 100 900 people are living in thirs great area. The largest town in Lappland is Kiruna.

Here in Lappland you can also find the tallest mountain in Sweden, Kebnekaise with its 2111 meters.

There is also a space base were ESA send up sattelites to the space.