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South Sweden is situated in the southern part of its country. It is close to Denmark and it borders with the riksområden of Småland and the islands and West Sweden . The most populous cities are Malmö , Helsingborg , Lund , Karlskrona , Kristianstad , Landskrona and Trelleborg .
During deglaciation in southern Sweden glacier ice was mostly warm-based with some lesser parts being cold-based. [23] At present various lakes in the South Swedish highlands contain planktonic crustacean species that are relics from the time the Weichselian Ice Sheet left the area about 12,000 years ago.
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The counties of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges län) are the first-level administrative subdivisions of Sweden. There are twenty-one counties; however, the number of counties has varied over time, due to territorial changes and to divisions and/or mergers of existing existing counties.
The responsibility involves both training personnel for the Home Guard units and leading them in operations. The Southern Military Region's Home Guard battalions are 11 in number. [1] On 1 October 2018, a separate command position was appointed for Military Region South. From 2019, the name Southern Military Region was adopted.
Sweden became the target destination for deserters because it was the only Western country that openly granted asylum to Vietnam War deserters. [4] Sweden's granting of asylum to deserters worsened relations between Sweden and the United States. In 1969 the United States revoked its ambassador to Sweden in protest. [5]
A region (Swedish: region) is a self-governing local authority of Sweden. There are 21 regions (one of which is a municipality having the same responsibilities as a region), each corresponding roughly to a county.
As of 2020, there are fifteen World Heritage Sites in Sweden, including thirteen cultural sites, one natural site and one mixed site. [3] The first Swedish site added to the list was the Royal Domain of Drottningholm , inscribed at the 15th session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Carthage , Tunisia, in 1991. [ 4 ]