Quality of life comparison
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If you lived in Sweden instead of Svalbard, you would:
Geography
see 10.3% less coastline
Svalbard has a total of 3,587 km of coastline. In Sweden, that number is 3,218 km.
The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.
Sweden: At a glance
Sweden is a sovereign country in Europe, with a total land area of approximately 410,335 sq km. A military power during the 17th century, Sweden has not participated in any war for almost two centuries. An armed neutrality was preserved in both world wars. Sweden's long-successful economic formula of a capitalist system intermixed with substantial welfare elements was challenged in the 1990s by high unemployment and in 2000-02 and 2009 by the global economic downturns, but fiscal discipline over the past several years has allowed the country to weather economic vagaries. Sweden joined the EU in 1995, but the public rejected the introduction of the euro in a 2003 referendum.
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