SWEDEN
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
News:
U.S. bombers land in
Sweden for exercises for first time
What's
in the news?
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U.S. bomber jets have landed in Sweden for
the first time in modern history for training exercises with the NATO invitee.
Key
takeaways:
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Sweden, which abandoned two centuries of
military non-alignment to seek NATO membership last year, announced earlier
this month that it was ready to host
NATO troops and materiel on its soil even before it becomes a member of the
alliance.
Sweden:
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It is a Scandinavian country.
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Located in the Baltic Sea.
Capital - Stockholm
Borders:
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Norway in the west
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Finland in the northeast
Go
back to basics:
Scandinavian
countries:
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Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and
Iceland, as well as the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Åland.
Nordic
countries:
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Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark.
Baltic
Sea:
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Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany,
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden.