Jämtland

Jämtland is a province in Norrland, it is located south of Lappland and north of Härjedalen. The län in this area is called Jämtlands län and the residential and largest city is Östersund, east of the lake Storsjön, (english, The Great Lake).

The province of Härjedalen is also included in Jämtlands län and is there represented as Härjedalen municipality.

Jämtland is fameous for it mountaineous landscape and is also one of the coldest places in Sweden, the mountains Sylarna has many times had the coldest temperature in Sweden.

Sameland

Sameland

Sameland, or Sápmi in sami language, is a cultural region were the samic culture and the sami people are living. This region is stretching in four countries, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. The sami lanugage is a finnic-urgic language, closely related to finnish, but also estonian and karelian. The sami culture is fameous for herding reindeers in the mountains, wich have been their way of life for centuries. When Sweden expanded northwards, many samis were forced to leave their lands to the state, and forced to speak swedish. The swedification wasnt so good as the rulers hoped, and the sami language is still spoken with 30 000 speakers, but it is to few and the lanugage is threatened.

In three countries, Sweden, Finland and Norway there is a parliament for the sami were they can have elections each four years, an exeption is Russia were this kind of institution doesnt exist, and its in Russia were the culture is mostly threatened. The Sami flag is also only in work in Sweden, Finland and Norway. In many places in the northern Scandinavia its very common to see this flag standing next to the national flag outside shops and other institutions.

The regions marked on the map is to show the different dialects the sami people are speaking.

1) South sami

2) Ume sami

3) Pite sami

4) Lule sami

5) North sami

6) Skolt sami

7) Enare sami

8) Kildin sami

9) Ters-sami

Värmland

Värmland, the second largest province in Svealand, bordering in south with Dalsland, Närke, Västergötland and the lake Vänern. Historical, Värmland had close relationships with Norway, and the accent spoken in Värmland have some similarities to norwegian. Its also in Värmland's border to Norway in the west were we find the mixed little fantasy country of Morokulien wich is a mixed word of "moro + kul + i + en" while "moro" is the norwegian word for fun, while "kul" is fun in swedish, "i" is in, and "en" is one, so literally Morokulien means "Fun-in-one".

It is also in Morokulien that was the only plae were swedish and norwegian couples could marry before. Värmlands norwegian counterpart province is Hedmark.

Dalsland

Dalsland, a province close to Bohuslän and bordering to Sweden's largest lake in the east, the lake Vänern. Dalsland is a very uninhabitated province, with very few citizens, and the most fameous town here is Åmål, wich is a small town. Dalsland have a population of only 51 000 citizens, and has a density closely related to how it is in Norrland.

Dalsland is together with the provinces of Bohuslän and Västergötland under the län of Västra Götaland.

Bohuslän

Bohuslän, a province on the western coast bordering to Norway. The province of Bohuslän was actually norwegian a long time, until it finally became a part of the Swedish Realm in its expansionistic era, and have been a province ever since. Sweden's second largest city, Göteborg, is sometimes counted to the province of Bohuslän, and this province is often included in the metropolitan area of Göteborg, and today, it is under the rule in Västra Götalands län, were Göteborg is the residential city. Actually, if we talk abut geography, Göteborg is in the province of Västergötland and not Bohuslän, even if it often counts to this. Examples on cities in Bohuslän is Uddevalla, Kungsälv, Lysekil, Grebbestad and Strömstad.

Cities and towns in Halland

Halmstad

Halmstad is the residential city of Hallands län, and the biggest city in Halland. The symbol of Halmstad is the Three Hearts as seen in the shield. A soda company who works in Halmstad also have the Three Hearts as symbol on their refreshments. The city is fameous as a city of summer and have many visitors in this period of people from the mainland who want to come to the sunny beaches.

The two photos down below is of the new Halmstad Library wich stretches out over the water of river Nissan, wich was very controversial when it was constructed, and the skyscraper Halmstad Trade Center.

Laholm

Laholm is in the southernmost part of Halland, the town of Laholm is a small countryside town in the middle of the open landscape of Halland. The municipality of Laholm is also fameous for its beaches and at the beach, Mellbystrand, its possible to see the skyscrapers of Halmstad some kilometers away on the other edge of the beach visible from there.

Halland

Halland is the province of the western coast, fameous for its beaches and the open landscape and the many wind turbines that is places almost everywhere on the great yellow fields. The residential city of the Hallands län is Halmstad with 55 000 people. Halland is divided into six municipalities, these are Halmstad, Laholm, Hylte, Falkenberg, Varberg and Kungsbacka.