SWEDEN IS NOT SWITZERLAND

Sweden’s tourist board has noticed that many, many people get it confused with Switzerland. Each year, 120,000 people Google whether Sweden and Switzerland are the same country. To help dispel the confusion, the tourist board has launched a humorous new campaign. The Visit Sweden website has detailed some ways in which the two countries differ:
– If you like historic banks, head to Switzerland, but if you prefer strolling down beaches and sandbanks, you should visit Sweden, with 48,000 kilometres of coastline and wild archipelagos.
– In Switzerland, you can “enjoy some spectacular light shows made with projections and LEDs,” but “in Sweden they have the Northern Lights.”
– While Switzerland is a country of “many interesting sounds” like yodelling and cowbells, Sweden is a place of peace and quiet where you can “wind down and connect with nature.”
* And “Come to Sweden, where we’ll treat you like family, but head for Switzerland, and we’ll crack your kneecaps with a crowbar.”
* Thanks, VIsit Sweden, you’ve made the place sound smorgasboring.
* Nothing about the cheese? Meatballs? Swiss Miss hot chocolate? Where’s the effort?
* On the bad side, Sweden is worth much less than Switzerland in Scrabble.
* Thanks to this, people will never mix up Switzerland a Swaziland again. I’m sorry, I meant to say Switzerland and Suriname.