7.6.2 Sweden: Miscellaneous facts
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This article is from the Nordic countries FAQ, by Antti Lahelma and Johan Olofsson, with numerous contributions by others.
7.6.2 Sweden: Miscellaneous facts
The populations of the four provinces are today:
Skåne: 1 110 000
Halland: 270 000
Blekinge: 160 000
Bornholm: 50 000
The big cities in Skåne are
Malmö: 250 000
Lund: 90 000
Helsingborg: 110 000
Kristianstad: 70 000
Skåne is sometimes divided into four provinces itself (going from north west
to south east): North Western Skåne, Göingebygden, Sydslätten and Österlen.
The borders of these local provinces are very much disputed though. As a
rule, the historic areas were smaller than some of the uses are today.
"Österlen" for example covers so many positive connotations of semester
paradise that the traditional borders often get transgressed when trying to
sell real estates for example!
The biggest newspaper is "Sydsvenska Dagbladet" that has its base in Malmö
but covers southwestern Skåne equally well. It is independently liberal. In
the same area, there are Social Democratic "Arbetet" and Centre Party
"Skånska Dagbladet". Several other local papers exist like for example
Helsingborgs Dagblad and Nordvästra Skånes Tidningar.
The only university in Scania is Lund University. Other schools for higher
education in the same official university area of southern Sweden are
situated in Växjö, Kalmar, Karlskrona/Ronneby, Kristianstad and Halmstad.
There are also quite big university independent schools in Malmö, and Lund
University offers some courses in Helsingborg and Jönköping (the later
outside Scania) as well.
There are ferries between Copenhagen and Malmö, Helsingborg-Helsingør,
Landskrona-Tuborg (close to Copenhagen) and of course to the islands Ven and
Bornholm. There are also ferries to Germany (Travemünde and Saßnitz) and
Poland and sometimes to Lithuania. A few other ones exist too.
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