If you live in the United States, or anywhere outside of Sweden for that matter, you may not know a whole lot about the Nordic country. If you’re willing to learn, however, Sweden now has a phone ...

On April 6th, the Swedish Tourist Association launched “The Swedish Number” an actual phone number people from all over the world can dial to speak with a random Swedish person. The marketing gimmick ...

Last week, the Swedish Tourist Association, a volunteer organization, declared Sweden the first country in the world with its own phone number: +46 771 793 336. The number connects callers to a ...

Sweden is typically known as the land of meatballs, IKEA, and left-wing politics. But what are the Swedish people actually like, and how many of them actually conform to these cultural stereotypes? In ...

Are you there, Sweden? It’s us, the world. To mark the 250th anniversary of Sweden’s abolition of censorship, the Swedish Tourist Association has launched a phone number connecting global callers with ...

Did you ever get bored and had the urge to talk to a random Swedish number out of the blue? If you've ever had a fantasy that specific and, frankly, odd, then dream no more. Sweden has just answered ...

At first when I called The Swedish Number — a phone line launched by the Swedish Tourist Association on Wednesday to connect anyone with a random Swede — things didn't sound promising. "Sweden is ...