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[cdybedahl]

About an hour and a half ago, Sweden reached nine million inhabitants, according to the Swedish Central Bureau of Statistics.

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[fifitrix.livejournal.com]

Go Sweden!
You do realise that more people live in London than that ?
Still - London is smelly, sweaty and over-crowded, and although I've never been I'm reliably informed that Sweden is none of those things.
Could these facts be connected somehow I wonder?

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. There are plenty of cities that have more people than our little country.

There are parts that are smelly, occasionally it gets sweaty (like right now, for example) and a few bits of Stockholm are over-crowded. But I haven't been anywhere in this country that's been nearly as unpleasant as London (I like England, but not London).

[fifitrix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, London is great for the day but I wouldn't want to live there.
Oh wait - crap I already do.
Someone remind me why ?

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Oh, but isn't that "Greater London", which encompasses half of southern England, as far as I can tell? The census only gives 7.1 million.

Only five million in Scotland, still...

[fifitrix.livejournal.com]

Greater London is most often described by using the M25 as a boundary.
(For those who dont know and probably care less - the M25 is the London Orbital Motorway. Its a great big car park which circles London has millions of traffic cones and delusions of being a road where traffic actually moves). I think that Greater London is supposed to have more than 10 million people but our census website died a severe death shortly after they launched it due to too many hits, so your guess is as good as mine.

[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

I had always thought that there were more people in Sweden. Australia recently passed twenty million and Sweden was often used by policy makers as model country of similar size...

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

I've heard that we have quite similar population structures, with most of the people stuck in a few areas and large bits of very nearly uninhabited land between them.