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This is a list of Swedish place names in the United States. Many places in the United States, especially smaller ones, have been named after Sweden-related topics. [1]
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Germans, for example, are one of the largest immigrant groups and places named after German cities are widespread across the United States. However, there is still a general concentration of them in the Midwestern United States, especially in Missouri. Other sources of foreign names transferred to the U.S. are the Bible and ancient history ...
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Back in July, copywriter Kevin Lynch, originally from Chicago, and his puppy Umlaut, visited all 21 counties in Sweden, stopping off at places with IKEA products named for them.
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The mid-19th and early 20th centuries saw a large Swedish emigration to the United States. In 1841, a group composed of former Upsala University students and a couple of relatives established the first Swedish colony west of the Allegheny Mountains on the east shore of Pine Lake 30 miles west of Milwaukee and named their settlement, New Upsala.