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  2. Swedish Americans - Wikipedia

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    The C. A. Nothnagle Log House (c. 1638) in New Jersey is one of the oldest surviving houses from the New Sweden colony and is one of the oldest log cabins and houses in the U.S. The first Swedish Americans were the settlers of New Sweden: a colony established by Queen Christina of Sweden in 1638.

  3. Nordic and Scandinavian Americans - Wikipedia

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    Swedish American Historical Quarterly 65 (2014): 3–30. Norwegian-American press argued the colonial settlement was Scandinavian not just Swedish. Rasmussen, Anders Bo. Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848-1870 (2022) see online book also see online book review

  4. List of sovereign states by immigrant and emigrant population

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    These are lists of countries by foreign-born population and lists of countries by number native-born persons living in a foreign country (emigrants).. According to the United Nations, in 2019, the United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and France had the largest number of immigrants of any country, while Tuvalu, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, and Tokelau had the lowest.

  5. List of countries by wealth per adult - Wikipedia

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    Latin America 145,583 Cook Islands * Asia-Pacific 26,438 Ivory Coast * Africa 5,296 Cuba * Latin America 12,849 Curaçao * Latin America 22,146 Dominican Republic * Latin America 13,374 French Guiana * Latin America 25,840 French Polynesia * Asia-Pacific 29,500 Greenland * North America 83,833 Guadeloupe * Latin America

  6. Why America Should Be More Like Sweden (It's Not What ... - AOL

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    America's officials should act like adults and acknowledge that Social Security can only be strengthened by ending the problem of uncontrolled costs. In this sense, maybe America should be more ...

  7. Swedish emigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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    A number of well-established and longtime Swedish Americans visited Sweden in the 1870s, making comments that give historians a window on the cultural contrasts involved. A group from Chicago made the journey in an effort to remigrate and spend their later years in the country of their birth, but changed their minds when faced with the ...

  8. Nordic immigration to North America - Wikipedia

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    Between 1821 and 1920, the U.S. witnessed a significant wave of Scandinavian immigration. Within this period, Sweden was the dominant contributor. While its population stood at 5,847,637 in 1920, Sweden accounted for a staggering 1,144,607 immigrants, making up 53.5% of the total Scandinavian immigrants to the US during this era.

  9. List of countries by social welfare spending - Wikipedia

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    Sweden: 26.1 27.1 26.3 27.4 26.8 8 ... 2010, and 2005, in constant 2010 prices adjusted for purchasing power parity, in US dollars. [2] Country 2015 2010 2005 1