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| From: [email protected] (Anders Sundin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Lakes in Sweden
Date: 14 Jan 1994 11:31:07 GMT
Organization: Organic Chemistry 2, Lund University, Sweden
The lakes of Sweden larger then 1 hectare (2.5 acres) have been mapped.
In Sweden there are 92,409 such lakes that covers a total of 9% of
Sweden. Of these lakes 4000 are larger than 1 square km and 400 are
larger than 10 square km. Like many other geographical features of
Sweden, the large number of lakes is a result of inland ice of the last
ice age.
50 000 of the lakes are named using one of 30,000 names. The most
common names are L�ngtj�rn, Svarttj�rn, Stortj�rn, and Abborrtj�rn.
Examples of unique names are L�rdagstj�rn, Namnl�sen, L�skvattnet, and
Lilla Pinketj�rn.
It should be noted that Finland which is known as "The land of a
thousand lakes" only has 56,000 lakes larger then 1 hectare. ;-)
-Anders
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| From: [email protected] (Per Wahlund)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Landscapes (Areas ?) in Sweden
Date: 22 Apr 1994 12:07:43 GMT
Organization: Uppsala University
Sweden is also divided into administrative units ( L�n ),
and historical areas without present administrative importance ( Landskap ).
There are 24 l�n:
Malm�hus Kristianstad Blekinge
Halland Kronoberg Kalmar
Gotland J�nk�ping �sterg�tland
G�teborg och Bohus �lvsborg Skaraborg
Stockholm Uppsala S�dermanland
V�stmanland �rebro V�rmland
Kopparberg
G�vleborg V�sternorrland J�mtland
V�sterbotten Norrbotten
The three main parts of Sweden are called G�taland, Svealand and
Norrland, and they correspond approximately to the grouping of
l�n that I made above, but strictly they are defined as consisting
of several landskap , of which there are 25, namely:
G�taland: Sk�ne Blekinge Halland
Sm�land �land Gotland
�sterg�tland V�sterg�tland Dalsland
Bohusl�n
Svealand: Uppland S�dermanland V�stmanland
N�rke V�rmland Dalarna
Norrland: G�strikland H�lsingland H�rjedalen
J�mtland Medelpad �ngermanland
V�sterbotten Norrbotten Lappland
Very often, but not always, the boundaries between l�n and landskap
coincide. In general, in the south part of Sweden, one landskap
consists of several l�n , in the northern part one l�n consists
of several landskap.
There are 285-290 communes, (I don't remember the exact number), the
two youngest, (Gnesta and Trosa), formed Jan. 1, 1992, as part of
a larger commune (Nyk�ping) which was split up into three.
Sk�ne consists of Malm�hus l�n and Kristianstads l�n.
In the northenmost part of Sweden, the tradition of landskap is not
so deeply rooted, so there one seldom talks about the landskap Lappland,
but uses V�sterbotten and Norrbotten, thereby talking about l�n .
V�sterbottens and Norrbottens l�n is the same area as the three
landskap V�sterbotten, Norrbotten and Lappland.
Per Wahlund
Dept. of Scientific Computing
Uppsala university
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From: [email protected] (Ulf Sundin)
Subject: Re: Landscapes (Areas ?) in Sweden
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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 12:49:07 GMT
Some additions to the almost exhaustive answer by Per:
Actually, Norrbotten is not a 'landskap'. This means that the 24
landskap does not partition the land area, but a relatively small area
of north east Norrland does not belong to any 'landskap'. I don't know
the reason behind it, but landskap is (as in Norway) an older structure
than 'l{n' (fylker), I I guess that the administration didn't reach
that far in the days of the 'landskap' , i.e., the medieval times.
There are quite many exceptions [to the boundaries between l�n and
landskap coinciding] in particular in svealand and northen g�taland. In
particular the l�ns and landskaps around lake M�laren, i.e., the
landskap Uppland, S�dermanland, V�stmanland, N�rke are really messed
up, and this also spread to neighboring landskaps as �sterg�tland,
V�rmland and Sm�land.
To mess things up even worse, some communes are split in several
landskap, althogh I don't think this can happen with l�n.
/Ulf Sundin
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From: [email protected] (Ahrvid Engholm)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Landscapes (Areas ?) in Sweden
Date: 22 Apr 1994 16:36:08 GMT
Organization: Stacken Computer Club, Stockholm, Sweden
Well, Sweden is administravively divided into 24 "l�n" (� = a with two
dots, the word is derivated from "f�rl�ning", my encyclopedia says, ie
an area given to a duke, or another of the king's men, to take up taxes
from). The Swedish l�n of today are administrative areas with two
parallel institutions. One is l�nsstyrelsen (the l�n governing board),
headed by landsh�vdingen (the chief of the l�n) who is appointed by the
government. The other one is landstinget (the local parliament of the
l�n), elected by the people and in charge of health care and local
transports in the l�n. Landstinget is, I guess, the more powerful of
these institutions. L�n- styrelsen will take care of things like
building permits etc.
In medieval days we had something called "landskap" (you could maybe
translate it to "landscapes", but it sounds a bit funny), which also
are 24 - but with totally different borders. The concept of landskap
has however lived on in the minds of people. They will rather identify
themselves with the landskap they were born in than the l�n. For
instance people from Scania will say they are Scanians, and not
residents of Malm�hus (one of the two l�n Scania is divided into). For
modern admini- stration the landskap has no meaning at all. Stockholm
is divided between to landskap: S�dermanland and Uppland.
There is also a division in three major parts of the country: G�taland
(o = o with two dots), Svealand and Norrland, listed from south to
north. The grounds for this division is more unclear. I suppose it has
to do with areas of influences of early kings. We would for instance
have the king of the Svea. The people of G�taland would have their own
king. (Norrland didn't have their own kings, as far as I know. That
area was colonized from the south and simply called Norrland anyway -
the name means the land in the north. The kings of the Svea was most
important, and conquered the surrounding areas. The name Sweden (in
Swedish "Sverige", ie the country of the Svea) comes from this. Some
people will talk about "Mother Svea" in the same way as Americans will
talk about Uncle Sam. She is a fat, blond lady with a crown and two
lions, one on each side.
I won't list all l�n and landskap. But someone else could maybe do it
if there's an interest.
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