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In line with worldwide tributes to the late Swedish EDM producer, Avicii - born Tim Bergling, here's an article on his homeland, Sweden. Tim Bergling passed away on the 20th of April, 2018, in Muscat, Oman.  Sweden is located in Northern Europe, bordered by Norway and Finland, and connected to Denmark via a land bridge. Stockholm is the country's capital, and is home to approximately 871,990 people.  Although Sweden is the third largest country in the European Union by area, it has one of the lowest population densities in Europe - Sweden is home to only 9.5 million people. The official language spoken in Sweden is Swedish, and their currency since 1873 is the Swedish krona. Herewith 20 astonishing facts about Sweden. 1. Sweden became the first European country to establish national parks, in 1910. This is due to the Swede's love for nature. 2. Sweden has one of the world's highest life expectancies - 80.4 years for men, and 84 years for women. 3.

I hope you'll be as amazed as I was on learning these facts. They are really mind blowing. The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 57.8 degrees C (136 degrees F) in Azizia, Libya in 1992. El Azizia The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was -89.2 degrees C (-128.6 degrees F), in Antartica's Vostok station. The Dead sea, which lies between Jordan, Israel and the West Bank is the lowest point on land. The Dead Sea Antartica being an extreme continent contains approximately 90% of the Earth's ice and 70% of Earth's fresh water. Antartica is actually considered a desert, as it receives just 50 mm of precipitation a year, typically as snow. Lake explosions may be a strange phenomenon in other parts of the world but they are not uncommon in Africa. Lakes Nyos, Monoun and Kivu are three deadly lakes found in Cameroon, the Rwandan border and in the Democratic Republic of Congo. These are crater lakes sitting atop volcanic earth. Carbon dioxid