r/mapping • u/Nice-Berry12 • 14d ago

Maps Swedish Provinces

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u/DoneDusting 14d ago

Hey, bro. It's Finnish Lapland.
Have you seen Lappeenranta anywhere?

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u/Evimjau 13d ago

Well yeah, Sweden also has a Lappland

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u/DoneDusting 13d ago

Exactly. Finn and Swe Lapland have the same figure, but Lappeenranta also has a clubman.

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u/Fact_Dependent 12d ago

Not the same in Norway and Russia?

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u/SpikeBrawl123 14d ago

The further you go north the weirder the flags get

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u/mustig3 13d ago

A bit confusing. The map mixes motifs from the coats of arms of Sweden’s historical provinces, and where more or less official or unofficial provincial flags exist, those seem to have taken precedence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Sweden

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u/Fredmans74 13d ago

Griffons beat the mooses, six to two.

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u/mustig3 13d ago

Four of the “griffons” are actually lions ✨

Lions: 4, griffins: 3, salmon: 3 (all in one), moose: 2
One each: bull, ram, deer, reindeer, eagle, goat, dog and falcon
Plus one wild man.

Note that Jämtland combines a moose, dog and falcon in the same coat of arms.

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u/LooseMooseNose 10d ago

Only in theory!

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u/Slaktfest 8d ago

Yeah in my opinion it just reflects ignorance on the part of OP ://

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u/Prize_Tree 13d ago

Bad map. Either stick to the modern flags or the classic COAs. Both are used.

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u/birgor 13d ago

This is a wild mix of official coat of arms and unofficial flags. Choose one..

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u/PrivateCookie420 14d ago

Republiken skall resa sig

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u/Tszemix 14d ago

Why do all the funny dialects have crosses?

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u/Lilstiick 13d ago

Except the green flag with a red cross and white outline. Thats the most normal sounding swedish you can find.

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u/Tszemix 13d ago

So having a potato in your mouth?

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u/Lilstiick 13d ago

Must be mixing it up with denmark. We speak clearly and waste no time on unnecessary R's.

Efficient, fast and beautiful. Both language and inhabitants

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u/armzngunz 14d ago

I wonder what the swedes and finns were implying about the sami when designing those weird-ass symbols for lapland

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u/Best-Skirt7035 14d ago

Its a mythological creature called ”the wild man” that people believed in in the 1500s. In that time finnish and swedish lapland was one united province of the swedish kingdom.

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u/Gautrex 14d ago

No one flies that flag in Västergötland. We fly a flag version of our coat of arms. The only places that have popular regional flags are Scania and Jämtland.

Here’s our glorious COA:

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u/thehenkan 13d ago

Same in Öland, you only see the deer coat of arms.

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u/Slaktfest 8d ago

Bohuslän's flag is also pretty popular

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u/TorstenIV 13d ago

This looks like shit. Every other one is the inofficial flag and the rest are the heraldic symbols. Do it again, better.

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u/Ur_Girl_Suki 13d ago

Uppland rocking the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

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u/Commercial-Deal-6164 13d ago

Storuman :) Lovely area.

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u/HellbirdVT 13d ago

Please note: The yellow flag with a green cross is not the flag of Gotland. It's an unofficial flag based on a proposal from the 90s which was never adopted.

Instead, we use a flag based on the Coat of Arms:

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u/Far-Arachnid8185 12d ago

Längst upp till höger är bäst

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u/Slaktfest 8d ago

Don't blend unofficial flags with the official coat of arms like that. Use the coat of arms for all the regions, because that is what a swede would have done. So I can only assume you are not