Within this region, Copenhagen and the Swedish city of Malmö are growing into a combined metropolitan area.

It was however the lumber industry that continued to dominate the city, drawing in a large immigrant labor force, most of whom were Swedish ( two of Cadillac's sister cities are Mölnlycke, Sweden, and Rovaniemi, Finland ).

The Swedish city of Helsingborg lies a short distance across the Øresund from Helsingør.

The Swedish part, however, goes through most of Sweden except the extreme north, and it is commonly considered the highway backbone of Sweden, since it passes in the immediate vicinity of all the major cities and large towns except four ( these being Gothenburg, Malmö, Västerås and Örebro ), but including Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden.

Examples include the Burren in Co. Clare, Ireland ; the Verdon Gorge in France ; Malham Cove in North Yorkshire and the Isle of Wight, England ; on Fårö near the Swedish island of Gotland, the Niagara Escarpment in Canada / United States, Notch Peak in Utah, the Ha Long Bay National Park in Vietnam and the hills around the Lijiang River and Guilin city in China.

The Swedish financial crises of the early 1990s exacerbated Malmö's decline as an industrial city ; between 1990-95, Malmö lost about 27, 000 jobs and its economy was seriously strained.

A new university college ( Swedish: högskola ), Malmö University College, was opened in 1998 on Kockums ' former dockside and further redevelopment of the now disused south-western harbor followed ; a city architecture exposition ( Bo01 ) was held in the area in 2001 and its buildings and villas forms the core of a new city district, aimed at the urban middle-class and with attractive waterfront vistas.

Malmö has the highest proportion of individuals of non-Scandinavian extraction of any Swedish city.

Its location near the southern tip of Sweden makes it closer to the Italian city of Milan than to the northernmost Swedish town Kiruna.

According to the Malmö police, hate crimes in the city range from anti-Semitic remarks ( a crime according to Swedish penal law ) to violent assault.

While under following Swedish occupation Osnabrücks's Catholics were not expelled, but the city severely suffered from Swedish war contributions.

The region became a part of the Kingdom of Poland province of Royal Prussia with the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ), prospered with the grain trade from southern Poland to the royal city of Gdańsk and then sustained ravages and plagues brought by several Swedish and Prussian invasions during the 17th and early 18th centuries, and was forcefully removed from Kingdom of Poland and annexed into the Kingdom of Prussia as a result of the First Partition of Poland in 1772.

Furthermore, Stockholm's raison d ' être, always was to be the Swedish capital and by far the largest city in the country, and, consequently, retelling the story of the city without including some of the history of Sweden is virtually impossible.

Under any circumstance, during the end of the 13th century, Stockholm quickly grew to become not only the largest city in Sweden, but also the de facto Swedish political centre and royal residence.

So, from its foundation, Stockholm has been the largest and most important Swedish city, inseparable from and dependent of the Swedish government.

When King Gustav Vasa finally besieged and conquered the city three years later, an event which ended the Kalmar Union and the Swedish Middle Ages, he noted every second building in the city was abandoned.

* Vasa, the Swedish name for the Finnish city of Vaasa

During the ensuing Thirty Years ' War, the city was occupied by Saxon and Swedish troops, and lost 18, 000 of 40, 000 citizens to plague.

* The village of Bro ( Broo ) in Sweden is granted the city rights for the second time and takes the name Kristinehamn ( literally " Christina's port ") after the present Swedish monarch, Queen Christina.

* The Swedish city of Karlskrona is founded, as the Royal Swedish Navy relocates there.

Last battle of the war at Battle of Ratan and Sävar | Ratan near Umeå in Swedish Västerbotten

The Russians had successfully captured the city of Umeå and driven the Swedish army commanded by Sandels south, to Härnösand.

To achieve a better negotiating position, the Swedish army command planned to land troops north of the Russian positions in Umeå to attack the Russian army from the rear, while the mainland army of 3, 400 men under Fabian Wrede attacked them from the front.

The Swedish force under Wachtmeister was delayed at Sävar 20 km north of Umeå.

Shortly after, Swedish troops entered Umeå.

In January 2008 the band played concerts in the Northern Norwegian cities of Tromsø, Svolvær and Bodø, and Swedish city Umeå along with a concert in August in Stockholm.

Mikael Jansson ( born 4 September 1965, Umeå, Västerbotten ) is a former leader of the Swedish political party Sweden Democrats ().

The NorrlandsOperan ( literally The Norrland's Opera ; NOP ), is a Swedish opera company in Umeå, located in Norrland, Sweden.

Born in Stockholm in 1920, he spent his youth in the northern Swedish city of Umeå.

Hanna Carolina Ljungberg ( born January 8, 1979 in Umeå, Västerbotten ) is a Swedish former football player, who played the position of forward.

She played for the club side Umeå IK and for the Swedish national football team.

She debuted as a goalkeeper on May 17, 2007 for Umeå IK when they played against AIK in the Swedish Cup because of Carola Söberg's injury at the 70th minute.

Refused is a Swedish hardcore punk band originating from Umeå, formed in 1991.

DAUM, the Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research in Umeå, is a Swedish governmental archive bureau which collects, preserves, works up and provides information about dialects, place names, folklore culture and local history.

The effects of Swedish snus on blood pressure has been studied at Umeå University in a randomly selected population sample of 4, 305 Swedish men between 25 and 74 years of age.

Construction was carried out by Botniabanan AB, a company owned 91 % by the Swedish state and 9 % by the regional governments of Kramfors, Örnsköldsvik, Nordmaling and Umeå.

Komeda is a Swedish pop / indie band from Umeå.

The club also won Svenska Cupen (" The Swedish Cup ") for the first time in 2006, defeating Umeå IK 3-2 in the cup final.

In 2008 they led a long time through the series but still they finished second behind Swedish giants Umeå IK.

The group who were later to start Offensiv were students at Umeå University and members of Swedish Social Democratic Youth League ( SSU, Sveriges Socialdemokratiska Ungdomsförbund: the youth organisation of the Swedish Social Democratic Party ).

The Royal Skyttean Society ( Swedish Kungliga Skytteanska Samfundet ) is a scholarly and scientific academy with its seat in the northern Swedish university town of Umeå.