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Skane County, Sweden

February 16th, 2012  |  by  |  published in All Photographs, Europe, Photo, Sweden | Leave A Comment »

Skane County, Sweden

Skåne County is the southernmost administrative county or län, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the historical province Scania. It borders the counties of Halland, Kronoberg and Blekinge. The seat of residence for the Skåne Governor is the town of Malmö. The headquarters of Region Skåne is the town of Kristianstad. The present county was created [...]

Sweden

February 8th, 2012  |  by  |  published in All Photographs, Europe, Photo, Sweden | Leave A Comment »

Sweden

Sweden is officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland, and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the third largest country in the European Union by area, with [...]

Turning Torso

January 29th, 2012  |  by  |  published in All Photographs, Europe, Photo, Sweden | Leave A Comment »

Turning Torso

Malmö is located in the southernmost province of Scania, is Sweden’s third largest city by population, after Stockholm and Gothenburg. Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County. The administrative entity for most of the city is Malmö Municipality which has 300,515 inhabitants in eight different localities, with 30% being [...]

Oresund Bridge #2

January 29th, 2012  |  by  |  published in All Photographs, Denmark, Europe, Photo, Sweden | Leave A Comment »

The Oresund  Bridge - Malmo, Sweden

At 7,845 m (25,738 ft), the bridge covers half the distance between Sweden and the Danish island of Amager, the border between the two countries being located 5.3 km (3.3 mi) from the Swedish end. The structure has a mass of 82,000 tonnes and supports two railway tracks beneath four road lanes in a horizontal [...]

Oresund Bridge #1

January 20th, 2012  |  by  |  published in All Photographs, Denmark, Europe, Photo, Sweden | Leave A Comment »

Oresund Bridge

The Øresund or Öresund Bridge is a combined twin-track railway and dual carriageway bridge-tunnel across the Øresund strait. The bridge connects Sweden and Denmark, and it is the longest road and rail bridge in Europe. The Øresund Bridge also connects two major Metropolitan Areas: those of the Danish capital city of Copenhagen and the major [...]