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104 Cards in this Set
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Port Talbot
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huge steel mill here
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Caledonia
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Roman name for Scotland
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Paisley
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major textile city in Scotland
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Tees-Exe Line
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boundary between lowland & highland Britain
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Aberdeen
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Major Service center for North Sea Development
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Celtic Tiger
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name for Ireland during economic boom
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Zuider Zee
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area was flooded during storm and created the Frisian Islands
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Amsterdam
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canals, "Venice" of north
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Alfred Nobel
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invented dynamite, "Nobel" peace prize
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Rudolf Kjellen
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"geopolitics" wanted Sweden to reunite with Germany to make mega state
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scapa flow
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British navy base during war time, north of Scotland
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Jersey & Guernsey Islands
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famous dor dairy/cows
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Marine Climate
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very mild, cold, rainy
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Dogger Bank
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shallow area in the North sea, once a great fishing area
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United Kingdom
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GB & N. Ireland
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Tees Exe Line
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boundary between lowland Britain & highland Britain
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Humber Estuary
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also used as a line to split England's highland & lowland
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Highland Britain
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poorer area, rigorous cold & wet climate. Little arable crop land, only root vegetable. Much of the area is grassland: used for sheep, cattle, dairy & beef.
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Rust Belts
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old factories, no longer in use or partially used. these factories were created in the late 19th & 20th centuries and today can not keep up with new technology. they are too outdated.
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Pennine Mountains
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extend south into England from Scotland. the mountains pushed up the layers of rock on each side of the mountains, causing tremendous amounts of coal fields.
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Industrial Revolution
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began in the 1780's in Northern England. (Northern Highland area)
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Irish Central Plain
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lowland area in center drained by Shannon River, this lowland area opens up on East to the Irish Sea
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Ireland's Population
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today is 4.6 million, less than the pop. in the 1800's
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CFB Climate aka Marine Westcoast Climate
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more days of rainfall than not, no downpours, steady drizzle and mist
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Hibernia
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Roman name for Ireland. never occupied by the Roman's but they knew of it. today Hibernia is a name for the group of people in the U.S. who are of Irish descent.
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Potato Famine
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at least 1 million died to famine, another 2 million left Ireland because of the famine. Began in 1840's.
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Celtic Tiger
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economic boom nickname for Ireland
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Shannon River
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flows into Atlantic Ocean
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Vale of Tipperary
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a bit drier than other areas, this area is productive in growing crops because it is not as wet.
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Mayo-Connemaru
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one of poorest areas in Ireland & Europe, very little industrial development, Celtic still spoken here today.
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Cork
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deep water bay in Ireland, petroleum refineries & chemical industries
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Wicklow Mountains
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south of Dublin
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IRA
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military wing, wants to unite Ireland
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Belfast
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city of 280,000, center for linen, industry made from flax & shipbuilding
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T or F: Ireland is viewed as strategically important to Britain
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TRUE
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3 coalfields found in Scotland
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Lanarkshire, Aryshire, Fife
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Glasgow
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located on Clyde River, paisley textile famous from this area
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Motherwell
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city in Glasgow area known for steel industry
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Clydeside
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great industrial area around Glasgow
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Firth of Forth
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on the other side of lowlands
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Edinburgh
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capital of Scotland
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East Lothian
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area on Firth of Forth
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St. Andrews
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University of the Royals, also famous for golf
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Tweed River Valley
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sheep, agriculture, "Tweed" jackets from here
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Tweed River
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one boundary of England & Scotland
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Aberdeen
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major service area for North Sea oil area
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Cambria
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Roman name for Wales
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Caledonia
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Roman name for Scotland
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Port Talbot
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steel mill in Wales
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Industrial Regions of England
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N.E. England, West Riding, Lancashire, Potteries, Midlands
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East Anglia
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premier agricultural area in England
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S.E. England
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dryer area, has become agricultural area for England
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Fens
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fertile dried swampland, major agricultural area in England
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Thames
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River flows through London, settled by Romans
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Weald
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hills in England, made of Sandstone & chalk
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Vale of York
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agricultural region, cropland
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2 industrial areas in England that are booming today
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South Hampton & Portsmouth
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Belgian gate
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gateway from Germany to France
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Belgium's two languages
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Flemish & French
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Brussels
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largest city in Belgium, EU & NATO HQ here
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physiographic regions of Belgium
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flanders, gent, antwerp, bastogne
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Plain of Lorraine
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lowland area in Belgium, minnette iron ore found here
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Interbrew
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1 of biggest industries in Belgium, recently purchased Amheiser-Busch
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Kempenland
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coal hidden hundreds of ft below surface. today is a source of coal for Belgium.
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Polders
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area in Netherlands that was once under the N. Sea
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Frisian Islands
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Islands in Netherlands, 19th century was flooded by great storm
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Zaider Zee
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area in Netherlands flooded by storm created Frisian Islands
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Ijseselmer
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fresh water lake behind dyke
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Delta Plan
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construction projects protect large area of land from sea
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venice of north
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Amsterdam
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Europort
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outport for Rotterdam
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Rotterdam
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port in Netherlands, major port for Europe
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Holland
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province of Netherlands, greatest developed area
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night soil
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basic fertilizer made from animal/human excrements
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Unilever
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from Netherlands, huge products in Europe
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Denmark
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consists of Jutland peninsula and an archipelago of islands
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The Sound
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in Denmark, between Sweden & Sjaelland
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Big Belt
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strait between Fyn & Sjaelland
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Little Belt
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between Fyn & Jutland Peninsula
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Greenland
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under Denmark's posession
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best agricultural area in Sweden
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southern Sweden
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Scandanavian Peninsula
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Sweden & Norway
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Vikings
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from Scandanavia, great shipbuilders, terrorized Europe
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morraine
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ridge/hill line which splits ice covered area in Sweden
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East Jutland
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area in Denmark, clay from under the glacier
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West Jutland
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area in Denmark, sand, gravel and rocks
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Denmark's exports
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eggs, bacon, butter and cheese. mainly to England & Germany.
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Schleswig-Holstein
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seized by German's for a canal to send vessels through Baltic to North Sea
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Fyn
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city of Odese here (3rd largest city in Denmark)
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Sjaelland
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Copenhagen found here
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Copenhagen
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economic/trading city
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Carlsberg Brewery
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major export for Denmark. HQ in Copenhagen
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Helsinger
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toll area during mideivel times. castle built here to take tolls from ships in Denmark.
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Norrland
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upper Sweden, border between Sweden and Norway
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Shield area
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metallic minerals found here: copper, nickel, maganese and iron ore. Sweden has ingredients for steel industry.
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Kiruna
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iron ore minerals, 60 % iron. high quality iron ore.
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Narvik, Norway
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port of exporting Swedish iron ore
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neutrality
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Sweden claims this but is a part of the EU
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Sweden in WWII
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provided Germans with iron ores, able to leave factories open to keep German's supplied
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Krona
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Swedish currency
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2 major industrial cities in Sweden
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Stockholm & Goteborg
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Volvo & Saab
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found in Sweden
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welfare-state
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funded by taxes
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Lapps (Sappit)
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aboriginal people of Scandinavia, originally from Siberia
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