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SWEDEN BY MARK POWER

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Slide 2 Slide 3 MAP OF EUROPE SHOWING SWEDEN sweden Slide 4 MAP OF SWEDEN Slide 5 FLAG OF SWEDEN National Anthem Slide 6 POPULATION Overall: 9,074,055 Capital City: ( stockholm ); 1,622,300 Amount of Mobile Phones: 3.835 million Life Expectancy: 80 Population of Other Main Cities: 1. Goteberg: 506,600 2. Malmo: 245,300 3. Uppsala: 127,300 Currency; Krona Slide 7 ETHNICITY Indigenous Population Mostly Consists Of: Swedes Finnish and Sami minorities Yugoslavs Danes Norwegians Greeks Turks Slide 8 ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES Services: 74 % Industry: 24% Agriculture: 2% Unemployment Rate: 9.3 % Slide 9 MAIN INDUSTRIES Iron and Steel precision equipment such as : bearings, radio, and telephone parts Wood pulp and paper products Processed foods Motor vehicles Resources: Zinc Iron ore Lead Copper Silver Timber Uranium Slide 10 Main Agriculture Agriculture: 2% Arable Land; 6% Labour Force; 3.95 Million The main outputs include barley, wheat, sugar beets, meet, and milk. Slide 11 BRIEF HISTORY Sweden emerged as an independant country in the Middle Ages and during the 17 th Century the Swedish empire expanded and became one of the strongest countries in Europe This empire weakened when the eastern half of Sweden was lost to Russia in 1809. Since then Sweden has been neutral in both World Wars and has developed a peace ethos, taking part in no war since 1814. Slide 12 Famous Swedish people The Swedish international soccer team including Ibrahimovic The world known band Swedish House Mafia The famous band ABBA Slide 13