Most houses in Sweden, as in Europe generally, are built from brick, block, stone, and or concrete, incl. stucco. Compared to the United States, this is because of the relative shortage of wood, and a different attitude to what is acceptable in terms of how solidly a house should be built. Likewise, the houses tend to be smaller than in the United States, especially compared to recently built house in much of the U.S. Some older houses in Sweden, as well as houses in rural areas, are built of wood, and some older houses can be large.
Chat with our AI personalities
Surprisingly Sweden has some rather cheap houses - the average house price is £50,000 approximately. However, the cost of living is high.
The Chippewa Indians lived in mud and grass huts. Some lived in Tee Pees as well, but most lived in huts.
normal houses like everybody else and most live in apartments
The most common name in Sweden varies greatly depending on if you choose to look at newborns, young or old people and whether you count just first names or middle names as well. If you take the whole population into account the most common first name in Sweden is: For females: Anna (with Eva and Maria as close second and third) For males: Erik (with Carl/Karl and Anders as second and third)
Johansson is the most popular last name in Sweden. The second most popular last name is Andersson and even though 'Svensson' is used as a term to describe the average Swede, much like the American term 'average joe', the last name Svensson is actually only the 9th most common in Sweden.
The people of Sweden speak the Swedish language and the largest city Stockholm. The Swedish language is similar to the Danish and Norwegian languages.