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Sister Sweden and Finland
Scandinavian Poster
A large poster, showing the Scandinavian boys, on thick Gloss Art 170gsm paper.
Forest Sea and Mountains
I once found a geography book about Scandinavia, and each country got a title like this.
Sweden is known for it’s massive forests that seem to never end, and they have the biggest lakes in Scandinavia. Heck, one lake is even as big as the Danish island Zealand. They take good care to preserve the forests, so every time they cut a tree down, and new is planted.
You’ll have to dig a long way down to find rock in Denmark. It’s impossible to get more than 50 kilometres away from the sea and compared to the size of the country, Denmark has one of the longest coastlines in the world. Tourists mainly come here for the nice beaches.
In this song one of the lines go, “If they ask us where we live, we tell them, ‘Where the salt grows’” [link]
Because the country is so flat, it's also very windy.
Norway, a country almost made entirely of mountains. Try looking at pictures from Norwegian nature. You will be hard pressed to find a single one without at least three mountains in the back. It has of course had a big influence on a the Norwegians’ lives, even down to what they eat, and they have some of the most expensive vegetables you’ll find. The mountains also have a bad tendensy to "hold onto" clouds, which results in a lot of rain.
EDIT: Finland isn't part of Scandinavia. Finland is part of Fennoscandinavia and the Nordics.
24th July 2010
3:10pm Fri 4th May #8323139
Behind my house isnt lakes or something like that, its dark forest and old vikings graves ._.
Behind my house isnt lakes or something like that, its dark forest and old vikings graves ._.
7:06am Wed 2nd May #8319613
sweden is so boring... there is woods everywhere exept in the ``skärgård´´.
sweden is so boring... there is woods everywhere exept in the ``skärgård´´.
8:46pm Wed 25th Apr #8309965
Isn't Denmark made entirely out of norwegian sand? I would think he would be flat.
Isn't Denmark made entirely out of norwegian sand? I would think he would be flat.
7:34am Sun 22nd Apr #8304113
Just wanted to point out in Sweden private landowners cut down trees without replacing them all the time. We used to have this nice conscientious system called "hundred-year shift" where people would cut one hundredth of their forest a year so any given part would grow untouched for 99 years before getting cut again, but then someone found out there was good money in Swedish timber and thought it'd be cooler to cash in on all that right away than to save it for when they wouldn't be alive anyway. . .
We still got some nice you'll-never-make-it-out-alive sized forests left though. :3
Just wanted to point out in Sweden private landowners cut down trees without replacing them all the time. We used to have this nice conscientious system called "hundred-year shift" where people would cut one hundredth of their forest a year so any given part would grow untouched for 99 years before getting cut again, but then someone found out there was good money in Swedish timber and thought it'd be cooler to cash in on all that right away than to save it for when they wouldn't be alive anyway. . .
We still got some nice you'll-never-make-it-out-alive sized forests left though. :3
2:02am Sun 8th Apr #8283293
@Opal the biggest is not the point the how many is the point on this one niin ja luen aina btw suomi on fennoskandinaviaa :
mut ei scandinaviaa
@Opal the biggest is not the point the how many is the point on this one niin ja luen aina btw suomi on fennoskandinaviaa :
mut ei scandinaviaa
12:51pm Sat 7th Apr #8282477
@turkupoika
Yes it is, but it's not a part of Scandinavia and neither are our lakes the biggest. Päijänne may be big but as long as Laatokka still belongs to Russia, not Finland, Vänern and Vättern beat us 2-0...
For Finns: Melkein jokaiseen näistä stripeistä liittyy joku tällainen yksinkertainen syy, että tietyt hahmot eivät ole näkyvissä jne. Olenko ainoa, joka lukee Humonin omat kommentit loppuun asti? :P
@turkupoika
Yes it is, but it's not a part of Scandinavia and neither are our lakes the biggest. Päijänne may be big but as long as Laatokka still belongs to Russia, not Finland, Vänern and Vättern beat us 2-0...
For Finns: Melkein jokaiseen näistä stripeistä liittyy joku tällainen yksinkertainen syy, että tietyt hahmot eivät ole näkyvissä jne. Olenko ainoa, joka lukee Humonin omat kommentit loppuun asti? :P
11:55am Sat 7th Apr #8282421
da fuqq???Finland is always called "a land of thousand's of lakes" aka tuhansien järvien maa
da fuqq???Finland is always called "a land of thousand's of lakes" aka tuhansien järvien maa
6:36am Mon 2nd Apr #8273891
@Trix012: The picture of Norway isn't really representative. West of the north-south spine of mountains that straddles the border between Norway and Sweden from the "waist" up and cuts southern Norway in two halves the landscape is more like coastal British Columbia (which, predictably, is also my favorite part of Canada). The rounded hills shown in the picture are really only found in a relatively small area of central Norway.
@Trix012: The picture of Norway isn't really representative. West of the north-south spine of mountains that straddles the border between Norway and Sweden from the "waist" up and cuts southern Norway in two halves the landscape is more like coastal British Columbia (which, predictably, is also my favorite part of Canada). The rounded hills shown in the picture are really only found in a relatively small area of central Norway.
3:03pm Tue 28th Feb #8207492
@surtursbane
The myth you're thinking of is of the norse goddess Gefion which was sent by Odin to the swedish king Gylfe to get more land for the Danes. Gylfe offered her as much land as she could plow in one day. She apparently had 4 sons with a jætte (giant) which she turned into oxen to help her. She managed to carve out Zealand which left the lake Mälaren in Sweden.
@surtursbane
The myth you're thinking of is of the norse goddess Gefion which was sent by Odin to the swedish king Gylfe to get more land for the Danes. Gylfe offered her as much land as she could plow in one day. She apparently had 4 sons with a jætte (giant) which she turned into oxen to help her. She managed to carve out Zealand which left the lake Mälaren in Sweden.
3:20pm Fri 24th Feb #8197433
If I remember correctly there is a legend about a giant creating Zealand by digging the lake.
If I remember correctly there is a legend about a giant creating Zealand by digging the lake.
2:26am Wed 15th Feb #8158578
Rofl @ HumDrum. Nice. Yes basically sweeden tramples and counters, denmark heals and counters and Red will just burn you with fire spells =D
Rofl @ HumDrum. Nice. Yes basically sweeden tramples and counters, denmark heals and counters and Red will just burn you with fire spells =D
10:48pm Tue 14th Feb #8158489
So in magic, Sweden is Green Blue, Denmark is White Blue, and Norway is Red White :P
So in magic, Sweden is Green Blue, Denmark is White Blue, and Norway is Red White :P
9:30am Sat 4th Feb #8113846
@lalaland123 I completely agree! Sweden's pic looks like one a lake in Quebec or Ontario. Denmark's looks like PEI and Norway's pic looks like a rounded version of the Rockies. Canada's nature is the best!
@lalaland123 I completely agree! Sweden's pic looks like one a lake in Quebec or Ontario. Denmark's looks like PEI and Norway's pic looks like a rounded version of the Rockies. Canada's nature is the best!
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