I'm going to introduce Sweden. Sweden is a beautiful country in north Europe. It is one of the Scandinavian countries, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland. It is an approximately big country but has only about nine million habitants. In the north parts there live almost no people but there are a lot of reindeers. The capital is Stockholm, which is known to be a beautiful city and being the host for the Nobel show every year. Sweden is a cold country, in winter the temperature sinks to around minus twenty degrees. In summer it is usually around twenty five degrees in the sun.
The fashion company H&M, Car Company VOLVO and Cell phone Company Ericsson are some famous Swedish companies. Another one is the furniture department store IKEA. Also the famous pop group from the 80’s, ABBA comes from Sweden.
In Sweden, almost everybody eats bread for breakfast. The basic food in the other meals of the day varies from time to time, but common choices are potatoes, pasta or rice. Traditional Swedish cooking contains a lot of meat, butter and cream, which might seem very unhealthy but in spite of that Swedes have an in average long life span. Swedish people are very tall.
Sweden is a rich land and the people have, compared to Japan, very big houses. Both in schools and jobs most people have long vacations and it’s not unusual to go to warmer countries in south Europe or even more far away to Asia or America during those.
Another thing Sweden is known for is the Vikings who lived there a thousand years ago. They went to other parts of Europe and even to America and occupied land and stole goods. Even now there are towns in, for example, France where there lives only Swedes who are ancestors of the old Vikings.
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