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| - Norrland begins where the Stockholm local traffic network ends and ends where the Norwegian civilization begins. Norrland has less than 900 000 inhabitants dispersed over a half dozen counties, each bigger than the rest of Sweden (Skåne and the two islands Öland and Gotland, as well as some other minor islands). The population density are 3 per square kilometer and the medium distance between the pubs in mating season is over 75 kilometer, a fact that is causing a rapid population decrease in this already sparsely populated area. There is a rich animal life in Norrland, there are almost all probable species of mosquitos (except the malaria mosquito), elks, reindeers, wolves, bears, polar bears, foxes, ermines, rabbits, dogs, cats(also a Swedish pornomagazine),mammoths and the icehockeyplayer "Foppa". The human life is though not especially rich. People along the coast lives like ordinary people, working in the paper industry or in the steel industry. But in the northern part of Norrland, far away from the coast, in Lappland, lives a very mysterious and special kind of people, the Lapps. The Lapps are living in small tents with their reindeers and mammoths and are very poor. But they don´t care about money, for them the most important things in life is to be out in the beautiful nature and go hiking with their reindeers or riding on their mammoths. Norrland is a good place to visit as the people there cannot say the letter "å" anymore than the common American. This is very funny to the rest of Sweden that often points out that maybe they shouldn't have named a lot of villages things that ends with å. Example: "Umeå" Pronunced: "Ume". "Luleå" Pronunced: "Lule".
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