8 Surprising Differences Between Norway and Sweden

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8. Costs of living
The restaurant and grocery prices are respectively 35,13% and 34,87% higher in Norway than in Sweden.
Of course, the prices of meals in restaurants vary according to the places you visit in both Norway and Sweden. Do you go to the restaurant next to a museum in the middle of the city? Or do you stop at a small town with a local restaurant? The price depends highly on that. This is the same for supermarkets. They tend to be a bit more expensive in tourist places. This is something you can easily look out for, and so avoid or gain extra budget in already expensive countries.

7. The right of public access
In Sweden, everyone has the Right of Public Access (Allemansrätten). You can walk around freely, camp, pick berries and mushrooms wherever you go, even on privately owned land. It is however expected of everyone to treat animals, plants, and property with respect. It can be summed up as: ‘don’t disturb, don’t destroy.’ This right can be found in the Swedish constitution. It is accepted cultural heritage, so a true Swedish custom. The roots for this custom can be found in provincial laws dating from as far as the Middle Ages.

6 The land and nature
It might not seem like there is a big difference between the 2 Scandinavian countries whereas to the land, use, and outlook, but there are a few big differences!
In Norway, only 2,7% of the land can be used for agriculture. 27,8% is forest. What is the rest, I can hear you say? It is used for other purposes or not used at all. It is used for cities, roads or it’s just a barren mountainous area. The Swedish land offers a bit more opportunities for agriculture with its percentage of land use of 7,5%. Needless to say, that both countries have to import a lot of food from other countries. In Sweden, the foresting industry is almost 3 times as large as in Norway with 68,7% of the land that is taken up by trees.

5. Stave churches
Norway is known for another thing. Their stave churches. Sweden only has 1 of them. The rest, 28 to be exact, can be found in Norway. In Norway, you can also find the Hadal stave church, in Notodden. This is the largest stave church.
So, what is a stave church exactly? A stave church is a medieval church. Once this type of church was very common in the North-Western part of Europe. The name stave comes from the structure of the building.

4. The state monopoly on alcohol
In both Sweden and Norway, there is a state-owned monopoly on alcohol. You cannot walk in the supermarket and buy a bottle of champagne for your wife’s birthday. No, you must go to a special shop for that.
In Sweden, the monopoly was created in 1850, for the prevention of overconsumption of alcohol and to take out the profit motive of the alcohol beverage sale. In Norway, the monopoly was introduced in 1919 following the Swedish example.
In Sweden, those liquor stores owned by the state are called ‘Systembolaget’. Here you can find alcoholic beverages with more than 3,5% alcohol.

3. Whale hunting
A surprising thing, you probably didn’t know about, and that sets Norway apart from Sweden (and from almost the whole world for that matter), is that it allows whale hunting. It is one of the 3 countries in the world where whales are still hunted commercially.
Norway has hunted whales for thousands of years, and up today still hunts minke whale. A species of smaller whale that is not officially registered as endangered.

2. Trolls
Trolls are a big part of the Scandinavian folk tradition. They are known in Sweden but in Norway, troll folk culture is something very big. This can be traced back to the Norse mythology, this is the old Scandinavian mythology.
Trolls are human-like creatures. They tend to be pictured as stupid, dangerous, and sometimes evil. There are lake trolls, cave trolls, forest trolls, mountain trolls, you name it, it’s there!

1. Little brother
They say that Norway always had a little brother complex from Sweden. Sweden got this ‘big brother’ title because they are the largest, most populated, and richest country in Scandinavia. Today this results in a lot of competition between Sweden and Norway for example in sports contests. They sometimes say: ‘as long as we beat the Swedes, it’s good’. Of course, this is all brotherly and friendly banter.
Lately, Norway has caught up and even surpassed Sweden. This has a lot to do with the oil that has been found in Norway. Nowadays Swedes go work in Norway because of better pay.



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