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Skåne (county) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 55 58 58 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 55.9833 decimal degrees |
Long: 013 30 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 13.5000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Occupies peninsula at southern tip of Sweden; area has a series of ridges in sourthern section, caused by geologic faulting; noted for summer resorts along flat northern coast, & fertile plains inland. |
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Skåne (preferred,C,V,English)
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Skåne (French)
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Skåne (Norwegian)
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Skåne Län (C,V)
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Scania (C,V,English)
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Skane Lan (C,V)
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Skåne Län (C,U,O)
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SW27 (C,U,FIPS)
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Comté de Skåne (C,U,French)
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Scanie (C,U,French)
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Skåne County (C,U,English)
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Skåne län (C,U,Swedish)
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Skoone (C,U,Finnish)
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Skåne (county) (P) |
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county (preferred, C) |
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created in 1997, by merging of Malmöhus & Kristianstad counties |
first level subdivision (C) |
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