The county is the second largest ( in terms of population ) of Sweden's counties and it is subdivided into 49 municipalities ( kommuner ).

Sweden's counties are generally of greater importance than its provinces.

Sweden's counties are primarily administrative units, whereas the provinces of Sweden usually fit cultural and historical boundaries.

Sweden's counties are entities for Sweden's municipalities, responsible for such things as child care, education, street planning, etc.

Approximately 40 % of Sweden's graduate engineers and architects are educated at Chalmers.

There are professional leagues, such as Finland's Salibandyliiga and Sweden's Svenska Superligan.

The most recent champions of the prestigious Czech Open are Sweden's IBK Dalen.

Parts of the canal are still used to transport cargo, but it is now primarily used as a tourist and recreational attraction, dubbed Sveriges blå band (" Sweden's Blue Ribbon ").

Older IKEA stores are usually very large blue buildings with yellow accents ( also Sweden's national colours ) and few windows.

Some vehicles are proofed against. 50 calibre bullets while others, such as Sweden's CV90, US Bradley M2A3 and Russia's BMP-3, can withstand frontal hits from 30 mm autocannon.

Germany's Puma and Sweden's CV90 can fire air burst munitions that contain hundreds of tungsten rods that are effective against vehicles, helicopters, and stationary strong points.

Sweden's pastry tradition features a variety of yeast buns, cookies, biscuits and cakes ; many of them in a sugary style with a pastry ( fika ) are enormously popular in Sweden.

They are one of the most popular rock groups in Sweden, and describe themselves as " Sweden's biggest rock band ", but are more or less unknown outside Scandinavia.

The others are Norway's Stein Eriksen, Borghild Niskin, Inger Bjørnbakken, Astrid Sandvik, King Olav V ( his son ), Erik Håker, Jacob Vaage, King Harald V ( his paternal grandson ), and Queen Sonja ( his paternal granddaughter-in-law ), and Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark.

Sweden's Crown Jewels are kept deep in the vaults of the Royal Treasury, underneath the Royal Palace in Stockholm, in a museum which is open to the public.

With few exceptions, Solna's built-up areas have a suburban character, but there are also several large parks and Sweden's national football stadium Råsunda, adjacent to Solna Centrum shopping centre and Metro station.

In this large municipality ( Sweden's 20th largest ) there are several nature activities one can enjoy.

According to a report prepared and jointly published in November 1999 by Sweden's four largest daily newspapers, Aftonbladet, Expressen, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet, many former members of this violent organisation are now members of present-day neo-Nazi organisations.

This genre spread over Europe, often incorporating further influences from progressive and folk music ( Italy's Elvenking, Sweden's Falconer and Denmark's Wuthering Heights are in particular influenced by folk music ).

The uninhabited areas are characterized by dense forests in the northwestern uplands and lakes in the east, giving rise to the epithet, commonly used for Dalsland, of " Sweden's lake province ".

Bottles aged in the chilly cellars of Sweden's alcohol monopoly are famous for tasting younger than the same wine stored at a more typical 13 ° C ( 55 ° F ).

There is also an element of nationalism in the crest since the colors are Sweden's national colours: blue and yellow.

Leading classical musicians have included Carl Michael Bellman, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Hugo Alfvén, Franz Berwald, Lars-Erik Larsson, Allan Pettersson, Moses Pergament, Hilding Rosenberg and Johan Helmich Roman who are among Sweden's great classical composers.

Sweden's interest in the territory was mainly strategic: the area was a buffer zone against Russian attacks on the Karelian Isthmus and present-day Finland, then the Eastern half of the Swedish realm ; and Russian Baltic trade had to pass through Swedish territory.

It wanted Sweden's foreign policy to mainly concern itself with relations with Sweden's " real neighbours ," which it regarded to be ; Denmark, Finland, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Poland and Russia, as well as its trading partners in Europe and North America.

The nobles, including his former supporter Bo Jonsson Grip, Sweden's largest landowner who controlled a third of the entirety of the Swedish territory and had the largest non-royal wealth in the country, soon conspired to get rid of him, resenting his attempts to restrict the traditional privileges of the nobility, as well as his use of German officials to fill important administrative positions in the Swedish provinces.

Sweden's lack of manufacturing capability at the time resulted in her cavalry lacking in armor and wheellock pistols ; the Swedish cuirassiers were only armored up to the standard of the typical imperial harquebusier, except for a few units raised in Livonia and recruited among the German mercenaries, while their Finnish light horse were often completely unarmored.

Livregementets husarer, Kavalleri 3 ( K. 3 ) ( Life Guard Regiment Hussars, 3rd Cavalry ) is one of Sweden's oldest military units originating from cavalry recruited from Uppland, Södermanland, Västmanland, Närke and Värmland.

Many from Finland used this opportunity to secure better paying jobs in Sweden in the 1950s and 1960s, dominating Sweden's first wave of post-war labour immigrants.

The reactor hall remains an amusement to many as once it was next door to what used to be Sweden's first nuclear reactor.

Sweden's largest printed encyclopedia of all times, the 2nd edition of Nordisk familjebok was started in 1904 and used the old spelling through all 38 volumes until 1926.

Bo Jonsson ( Grip ) used this power to personally usurp 1, 500 farms and he soon became Sweden's largest landowner, controlling a third of the entirety of the Swedish territory and possessing the largest non-royal wealth in the country.

Baltzar von Platen also worked with ASEA, Sweden's major electrical company, on the development of a process which used heat and pressure to produce diamonds.

This was supposedly in order to keep the Crown Prince " at least partially compensated for the donations and other property, which he had lost since being called to the succession of the Swedish throne ", having also used proceeds of sales of his Italian and French property to pay off debts of Sweden and losses as a consequence of Sweden's involvement in the Napoleonic Wars.

Skarn is an old Swedish mining term originally used to describe a type of silicate gangue, or waste rock, associated with iron-ore bearing sulfide deposits apparently replacing Archean age limestones in Sweden's Persberg mining district.

A later machine was the B-1, which was used by Sweden's telegraph service.

As a boy in a local school he was shy and solitary, absorbed in his fondness for nature and his visions of Sweden's ancient glory.

including the Pacific Research Institute, which has released a documentary called Not As Good As You Think: Myth of the Middle Class Schools, a movie depicting positive benefits for middle class schools resulting from Sweden's voucher programs.

However, Per Thulberg, director general of the Swedish National Agency for Education, has said that the system " has not led to better results " and in the 2000s Sweden's ranking in the PISA league tables worsened.

According to Moodysson, the problem with the original title started when the film was Sweden's candidate for the Academy Awards, though it was eventually not chosen as a nominee: the Hollywood industry magazine Variety refused to run an advertisement for a film with that title, and thus American distributor Strand Releasing asked for a new title to be chosen.

Sweden's Bjorn Wirdheim won the 2003 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship for Drivers

A second football team, IFK Malmö played in Sweden's top flight for about 20 years and the club's quarterfinal in the European Cup is the club's greatest achievement in its history.

There was some excuse for her ; she had lost three babies and still felt herself an isolated foreigner in a hostile land, even more so after 1627 when her brother joined Sweden's enemies.

In 1630 Gustavus Adolphus concluded that Habsburg designs for Baltic supremacy threatened Sweden's very existence and also its religious freedom.

The term " Reichstag " also remains in use in the German language as the term for the parliaments of some foreign monarchies, such as Sweden's Riksdag and Japan's pre-war Imperial Diet.

" Robyn entered Sweden's pre-selection for Eurovision Song Contest 1997, as co-writer and producer of the song " Du gör mig hel igen ," which was performed by Cajsalisa Ejemyr.

Sweden's military forces was for over a century built upon the concepts of conscription and territorial defence, supporting the longstanding national policy of non-alignment.

His love of Sweden led Appleton to leave Dartmouth College in 1976-1977 and become the director of Elektronmusikstudion, Sweden's national center for electronic music.

Then in 1960 came arguably the first rallying superstar ( and one of the first to be paid to rally full time ), Sweden's Erik Carlsson, driving for Saab.

He has served as Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs since 6 October 2006.

It initiated the negotiations for Sweden's accession to the European Union ( though the work to prepare the ground, at home and versus the EEC / EU, had already started during the final year of the Social Democratic government.

He was the first Magnus to rule Sweden for any length of time, not generally regarded as a usurper or a pretender ( but third Magnus to have been proclaimed Sweden's king and ruled there ).

Later the same year, the government announced proposals for far-reaching cutbacks in Sweden's military spending.

In a December 2011 interview for Channel 1 with Sweden's public service broadcaster Sveriges Television, Silvia called media's handling of the information about her father " character assassination ".

Planning of the Lillehamer bid started in 1981, following Falun, Sweden's failed bid for the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Peter the Great would opt for Samson, springing the jaws of Sweden's heraldic lion.

As Griffenfeldt predicted, Sweden's stronger ally France was the party that dictated the peace with Denmark's ally Holland, and in spite of Danish victory at sea in the battles against Sweden in 1675 – 1679 during the Scanian War, Danish hopes for border changes on the Scandinavian Peninsula between the two countries were dashed.

BESK ( Binär Elektronisk SekvensKalkylator, Swedish for " Binary Electronic Sequence Calculator ") was Sweden's first electronic computer, using vacuum tubes instead of relays.