Sweden is one heck of a beautiful country and here on FTD facts
We've talked about it so much in the past as a matter of fact, you're reading the title, right?
This is actually our fifth episode
Talking about this great and amazing country and it is a country that we just can't get enough of there's so much information
And so much to learn from it
It is a country that has a noble people who are not just peaceful, but work hard and know how to have fun
Hey everybody. How's it going? Welcome to FTD facts
My name is Dave Walpole, and I don't know about you guys if you're really excited about this
it has been 11 months since we have done a fax on Sweden and I was like
Hey, Leroy, my partner that does it with me. I was like, yo, man, you know what?
I think we need to go back and do some more
Sweden facts, what do you think?
So we kind of figured we're gonna do this as a surprise because it's been so long since we've talked about Sweden
So we're like, okay
We got to jump back into it and we know a lot of you guys in our last episodes you guys have been like yo
Give us a part five and not gonna lie. I had to do some digging for this episode because hold man
I really had to like find the stuff in the the dark area of the internet
Yeah had to do a lot of reading. So hope you guys are excited to learn a little bit more about Sweden
Let's see how well this one does also by the way
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We're just gonna do it because it's just the way it is. Either way also before we get in this video
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Let's find out more about
Sweden oh, yeah
now as we all know Sweden has joined the European Union and this happened on the day of January 1st of
1995 and one thing that is interesting about this it is one of the few countries that is not a part of NATO that is
A part of the European Union now for NATO for those who don't understand it is the North American Treaty
Organization and the in Sweden refused to join NATO was based off a decision from way back to
1949 when they had the decision to join but wanted to remain relatively neutral to all countries of the world and although there still may
be many people believing that staying away from NATO is a great idea since 2008 to
2015 the percentage of those supporting NATO within the country went up from 22% to
33% and as in today's world as of
2017 the research team PE W
Stated that the percentage had even gone up way higher to 47% So you could maybe see Sweden joining NATO
Within the future and I think that's just a rather interesting and groundbreaking fact that could possibly happen now
Here's one strange fact
Now when you think of Sweden, what do you think the most dangerous animal within Sweden is well in our last video?
We talked quite
Heavily about how the moose is one of the most populated animals within the country and that you may think well people may not die
From a moose directly but they may accidentally hit it with their car and therefore die from you know
Getting hit by a moose, which actually does happen
I know it sounds ridiculous
but it happens even in countries like mine like Canada and you may even think that the
Scandinavian brown bear may be a very deadly animal to people in Sweden but reports show that only
21 people have died from brown bears in all of Scandinavia
From 1977 to 2012. So can you guess what the most deadly animal in Sweden is?
It's wasps believe it or not. This is because reports indicate that they kill about one person a year in Sweden
And I guess that's if you're allergic to bees, I mean, you're not really dying from the bees themselves
You're dying from your allergic reaction to the bee sting and speaking of animals
Let's also talk about wolves and although dangerous believe it or not
It's very uncommon to see some of them in the wild as there's not very many within this country
They estimate that the Wolves within Sweden sit at only approximately
250 and for this particular species within Sweden they are put on a protected list
And for that reason they are not actually allowed to be killed unless they are continuously harming or injuring human beings
This is because the countries within Europe have been greatly try to repopulate the wolf species and for Sweden it wasn't until about
1978 that wolves began in a sense
Recolonizing the country after being gone from Sweden for nearly 12 years
So if we're going to talk about nature
We also need to really mention the fact that Sweden does really good with green and renewable energy
this is one thing that the people of the country should be extraordinarily proud of because
52% of his energy comes from renewable energy sources like windmills solar
Hydro, you name it?
they got it and because of this it has the highest share rate of
renewable energy of any European country within the European Union now for this particular type of energy about
95 percent of renewable energy comes from hydroelectric power and with that they have over
1900 power stations that are strictly
dedicated to hydro and the biggest of this being the HAR spring get hydro plant which is located in the Lula River producing about
977 megawatts of capacity as well. It's not just the biggest one within Sweden
It's also the fourth biggest one in all of the Nordic countries
So in our last episodes we did mention stuff about languages
But I want to dive a little further into that for this episode because we all know that of course
Swedish is the main language of the country
But for foreign languages 86% of the people speak English and 30% speak German with another 30%
Speak Norwegian about 15% of people speak Danish and 11% of that is also French
Now, of course, there's other languages within the country
But one thing that I found out that was amazingly
Fascinating about the eighty-six percent of people that speak English is that is higher than my country of Canada
Now keep in mind. I mean my country has an entire province that speaks French. That's Quebec
so I guess that kind of counts either way when it comes to its relation of English speakers about
70% of people speak English in Finland, and Germany even has like fifty-six percent
So I'm just like wow, that's crazy that Sweden has that huge high percentage of English speakers. It just threw me off
That's all now speaking of languages
we cannot forget about the people of the semi and did you know that Sweden because of the Sami people they actually have more than
One Parliament. Mm-hmm
And in order to figure out why we need to look at these people to begin with
Now the Sami people are the indigenous people who lived in the region in the arctic area for thousands of years and for me
I want to dive further into these people because I just find their history very fascinating now
Sometimes people refer to the semi-people as a lapse or Laplanders as in Lapland
I assume it's not really a derogative term because you're talking about a region
so hopefully I'm not offending anybody when I say that before these people it is believed that they lived in the region for about
5000 years and even some petroglyphs have shown evidence of them being around the area since
10,000 BC and in today's world
there's been no official census done on the people of the Sami and it is believed that there is anywhere between
80,000 to
100,000 people across the countries of Sweden, Norway
Russia and Finland with about 40,000 people approximately living in Sweden, but then again guys, it's just an estimate
no census
They just kind of like maybe
Maybe not they don't really know now when I was talking about Sweden having two Parliament's for the Sami people
They had been officially recognised for their existence in
1989 and by January 1st of 1993 Sweden created the Swedish sami parliament
Also guys just letting you know you might have heard me pronounce it saw me
You've also heard me pronounce it Sami it probably just rolled right off the tongue, but from what I've heard
It's actually pronounced saw me more than Sami, so I don't know
We feel free to correct me because I mean I apparently always get pronunciations wrong when we do Nordic countries
And now if we're gonna actually talk about history
Let's dive a little bit into the Swedish Empire
And one thing that I found very fascinating is when we think of Sweden we think of well
It's just a country that is in one area. We don't think of them really colonizing other places, but guess what?
They actually did they actually in fact had overseas colonies believe it or not for example in America
They had New Sweden, which was just near the Delaware River from the years of
1635 to
1655 and for the Caribbean they had multiple islands such as Guadeloupe from
1813 to 1814 and for that Britain had invaded the country and seated to Sweden, of course
There's the island of Saint barthélemy and they gain that when the British exchanged the island to Sweden in
1784 for trade rights to Gothenburg, and it was only a few years after a devastating hurricane, which hit the island in
1854 Sweden then turned and sold the island back to France in 1878 as well
They also owned the island of Tobago in 1733, which was short-lived being foiled by the natives
But what I also found really fascinating is that Sweden also owned colonies in Africa?
these colonies and forts were located off the gwelf of Guinea and they were established anywhere between 1650 but were eventually
taken back by Denmark in 1663
so there you have it guys that is just some great info on Sweden such an
Amazing country with a great amount of history and culture and I hope you like the facts because we really had to dig hard into
This one and learn more about its history learn more about its culture and learn more about how this country
Operates as a whole but my name is Dave waffle. Thank you guys for tuning in
It's been a pleasure learning with you guys
And again if you guys liked this video and you want to part six
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This has been our fifth time looking at the country of Sweden and man
Is it still amazing to find out many and more great things about what this country has to offer
Sure. It's had its ups and downs good moments and bad moments as does any person or country that exists in the world that we
know of today
But overall Sweden remains to be a beautiful and amazing country filled with people both young and old
who want either the most of life the peace of life and the knowledge of life for this is the
People country and culture of Sweden where it's open lands represent. It's open way of thinking and life
All right, so before you guys get out of here check out our other videos as well
We got some cool playlists on other countries and hey
If you want to learn more about Sweden you didn't get 1 2 3 & 4
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