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Swedish mile

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noun

  1. a unit of length used in Sweden, equal to 10 kilometres

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Despite the lack of official financial and moral support, small shoots of revival are emerging from Älvdalen in the forested hills, 40 Swedish miles – 400km – northwest of Stockholm.

From The Guardian

For the distance of a quarter of a Swedish mile it is surrounded with fertile corn-fields, which are bounded by hills, and the view is terminated by spacious forests.

From Project Gutenberg

A long & tedious ride, one & a quarter Swedish mile from town.

From Project Gutenberg

We made two Swedish miles by noon, and then took a breakfast of fried reindeer meat and pancakes, of which we ate enormously, to keep up a good supply of fuel.

From Project Gutenberg

This way was to get into the road and channel for the ships from Stockholm to the Dollars, which is near twenty Swedish miles for the ships to go about.

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