Historical information Toronto is Canada’s largest city with 2,731,571 inhabitants (in 2016) and is the capital of the province of Ontario. It is also the fourth most populous city in all of North America after Mexico City, New York and Los Angeles. The area has been inhabited for more than a thousand years by indigenous…
Best travel time to Mallorca
The summer is hot and the winter mild: Thanks to the Mediterranean climate on Mallorca , the largest of the Balearic Islands is ideal for a relaxing holiday all year round. Depending on what you are planning to do on your Mallorca vacation , a different season is the best time to travel to Mallorca . If you want to spend a beach holiday with…
Before the trip to Indonesia
Passport, visa and customs Swedish citizens receive a visa on arrival in Indonesia. However, there is a requirement that the passport must be valid for 6 months upon entry into Indonesia and that you can present an outbound ticket. You need to bring a photo. The visa is valid for 30 days and costs 25USD…
Nepal and Bhutan
Join us on a tour of perhaps the Himalayas’ most interesting countries! Together with Swedish tour guides, knowledgeable local guides and a limited number of fellow travelers, you visit some of the region’s absolute gold nuggets and get to experience the special atmosphere you only find here. The peoples of the Himalayas are known for…
Boat Trips in Pattaya Bay
Boat trips Pattaya Bay (Ao Pattaya) is not very interesting in itself but for many it gives a sense of tropical conditions and thienosis, which is one of the busiest tourist destinations in Thailand. The bay can be explored with a variety of boat and boat trips as well as cruises and charter boats, and…
SKIATHOS ATTRACTIONS
FLIGHTS, ACCOMMODATION AND MOVEMENT BY SKIATHOX Skiathos Old Port is a cozy holiday destination. Flights and package tours Skiathos has an international airport named after Alexandros Papadiamantis. The airport is located about three kilometers from the city of Skiathos. There are no direct flights from Finland to the island, but there are good flight connections…
Ostrava Travel Guide
Ostrava surprises with its comfort. The Czech Ostrava may seem like a hub of industrial concentration, but the city is also rich in fine architecture as well as active cultural events. The industrial city may also surprise Ostrava is the third largest city in the Czech Republic in terms of population. It is located near the…
Florida – hot atmosphere and endless sandy beaches
Florida’s strengths include long and wide beaches, handsome palm trees and the great entertainment of vibrant cities. Read Rantapallo’s destination guide and plan your own holiday. In Florida, the beaches are wide and the palm trees are crowded According to DigoPaul, the state of Florida is a palm-filled beach resort that also offers tourists plenty…
Zimbabwe 2010
Yearbook 2010 Zimbabwe. It sparked doubt in government cooperation between rivals President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. They both sometimes gave contradictory information about the decisions the government had made. In October, a frustrated Tsvangirai described the president as a “traitor” who constantly made decisions on his own, and at the end of…
Zambia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Zambia. During a visit to China in February, President Rupiah Banda signed an agreement with his counterpart Hu Jintao on far-reaching cooperation on geological studies and mineral extraction in Zambia. There was no mention of how much the deal was worth, but China has already invested multibillion in the country, mainly in the…
Yemen 2010
Yearbook 2010 Yemen. According to COUNTRYAAH, Yemen has a population of 28.5 million (2018). The United Nations Food Program WFP warned in March that millions of residents in this poorest country in the Arab world were at risk of starvation. Prior to the food supply of the population, the government prioritized the fight against militant…
Western Sahara 2010
Yearbook 2010 Western Sahara. Violence erupted on November 8 near Western Sahara’s largest city, El-Aaiún, when police stormed the newly formed protest camp Gadaym Izik. According to the Western Sahara Independence Movement Polisario, 36 people were killed. According to Moroccan authorities, the number was killed, of which ten were Moroccan soldiers. About 20,000 people lived…
Vietnam 2010
Yearbook 2010 Vietnam. An ongoing campaign to silence dissent continued at the beginning of the year. According to COUNTRYAAH, Vietnam has a population of 95.54 million (2018). A Haiphong court in January sentenced author Pham Thanh Nghien to four years in prison for spreading propaganda against the state. She had been detained for close to…
Venezuela 2010
Yearbook 2010 Venezuela. In the September 26 congressional elections, President Hugo Chávez failed to win the two-thirds majority he sought, despite his party’s Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) winning 96 of the Congress’s 165 seats. However, the PSUV is still the largest party and the overweightness of Chávez in public opinion was still evident….
Vatican City 2010
Yearbook 2010 Vatican City. Of the Pope’s travels in 2010, it attracted the greatest attention to Britain. The trip was made in mid-September and was the first papal visit ever in the United Kingdoms. According to COUNTRYAAH, Vatican City has a population of 825. The Pope visited Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Birmingham – the Archbishopric…
Vanuatu 2010
Yearbook 2010 Vanuatu. According to COUNTRYAAH, Vanuatu has a population of 292,680 (2018). A report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in February showed that Vanuatu was one of the Pacific region’s fastest growing economies. Growth was estimated at 4 percent in 2009, which was the seventh consecutive year of positive growth. In 2010, growth…
Uzbekistan 2010
Yearbook 2010 Uzbekistan. In January, the second round of the parliamentary elections started before the New Year. According to COUNTRYAAH, Uzbekistan has a population of 32.96 million (2018). No opposition parties were allowed to participate, and openly opposition politicians were imprisoned or had fled the country. In addition, in practice, Parliament had no power over…
Uruguay 2010
Yearbook 2010 Uruguay. According to COUNTRYAAH, Uruguay has a population of 3.449 million (2018). Governments in both Uruguay and Argentina made an effort during the year to resolve the multi-year conflict over the environmental impact on the Río Uruguay border of a newly built pulp mill on the Uruguayan side. In mid-April, the International Court…
United States 2010
Yearbook 2010 USA. According to COUNTRYAAH, United States has a population of 328.2 million (2019). Democrats lost their “super majority” in the Senate in January, when a Republican unexpectedly won the election after the deceased Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts. In doing so, Republicans increased their ability to stop bills, which seemed to jeopardize the bitterly…
United Kingdom 2010
Yearbook 2010 UK. Labor forces urged Prime Minister Gordon Brown to resign as party leader at the beginning of the year, but even this time he was able to remain despite dissatisfaction with his leadership within the party. In January, former Prime Minister Tony Blair testified before the independent inquiry into the Iraq war led…
United Arab Emirates 2010
Yearbook 2010 United Arab Emirates. According to COUNTRYAAH, United Arab Emirates has a population of 9.631 million (2018). Dubai’s Dubai leadership announced in March a comprehensive debt restructuring plan that was set to post $ 9.5 billion to the debt-laden conglomerate Dubai World, which handled all of the emirate’s heavy investments. In September, the conglomerate…
Ukraine 2010
Yearbook 2010 Ukraine. The year began in a critical economic situation, where before the New Year the government was forced to request increased credit from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to meet its loan commitments and at the same time have the means to pay out pensions and public salaries. According to COUNTRYAAH, Ukraine has…
Uganda 2010
Yearbook 2010 Uganda. At least 74 people were killed and about as many were injured when explosive charges were detonated in two premises in the capital, Kampala, July 11. According to COUNTRYAAH, Uganda has a population of 42.72 million (2018). The attacks, probably carried out by suicide bombers, were aimed at a restaurant and a…
Tuvalu 2010
Yearbook 2010 According to COUNTRYAAH, Tuvalu has a population of 11,508 (2018). Tuvalu and other low-lying island nations in the Pacific are not sinking as fast as scientists have previously claimed. The islands are growing instead, according to a geological study presented in the scientific journal Global and Planetary Change in June. The study, made…
Turkmenistan 2010
Yearbook 2010 Turkmenistan. According to COUNTRYAAH, Turkmenistan has a population of 5.851 million (2018). The gloss of deceased dictator Saparmurat Nijazov fell further during the year. Turkmenbasji the Great, as he was called, had his gold statue dismantled. His successor, President Gurbanguli Berdimuchammedov, ordered the 15-meter-high rotating gold statue to be removed from the 75-meter…
Turkey 2010
Yearbook 2010 Turkey. According to COUNTRYAAH, Turkey has a population of 82 million (2019). The power struggle further raged between the EU-oriented Islamist government and the secularist opposition based on the judiciary and the military. In a referendum on September 12, the government proposed constitutional amendments that diminished the power of the military courts and…
Tunisia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Tunisia. Violent crows erupted in December after a young unemployed academic, Mohammed Bouazizi, set fire to himself in protest of police seizing the vegetables he sold in the absence of a job. Bouazizi was killed by the burns and several people were killed in the subsequent demonstrations against unemployment. Four opposition movements –…
Trinidad and Tobago 2010
Yearbook 2010 Trinidad and Tobago. According to COUNTRYAAH, Trinidad and Tobago has a population of 1.39 million (2018). The opposition demanded a vote of no confidence in April because of corruption allegations against the government. Then Prime Minister Patrick Manning announced something unexpected new election. The election was held in May and resulted in the…
Tonga 2010
Yearbook 2010 Tonga is a country located in Oceania according to Digopaul. In February, the captain was charged with the Princess Ashika ferry, which sank off Tonga in August 2009 with 74 deaths as a result. Captain Maka Tuputupu was charged with driving the ferry even though he knew it was not seaworthy, which he…
Togo 2010
Yearbook 2010 Togo. According to COUNTRYAAH, Togo has a population of 7.889 million (2018). Faure Gnassingbé was re-elected with 61 percent of the vote in the March presidential election. The election was both preceded and followed by protests and questions. Two opposition candidates jumped off a few weeks before the election in protest against ambiguities…
Thailand 2010
Yearbook 2010 Thailand. The protests against the resignation of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006 continued this year as well, and increased dramatically. In mid-March, his red-clad supporters, the “red shirts”, began to rally again in central Bangkok, demanding new elections to Parliament. According to COUNTRYAAH, Thailand has a population of 69.43 million (2018). Prime…
Tanzania 2010
Yearbook 2010 Tanzania. Before the general election this autumn, the rival parties on the Zanzibar archipelago signed a power-sharing agreement. In a referendum, a local constitutional amendment was approved which stipulates that the two largest parties should appoint each vice president and that the ministerial posts should be distributed proportionally between them. According to COUNTRYAAH,…
Tajikistan 2010
Yearbook 2010 Tajikistan. Immediately after the New Year, the Pamir Mountains in eastern Tajikistan were hit by a severe earthquake that left many people homeless in severe cold. As winter passed in unusually sudden heat, large snowfalls followed, which isolated tens of thousands of mountain dwellers and demanded death victims. According to COUNTRYAAH, Tajikistan has…
Taiwan 2010
Yearbook 2010 In January, Taiwan signed an agreement with the United States for the purchase of, among other things, air defense robots and helicopters for $ 6.5 billion. The arms purchase agreement had been delayed for several years due to political opposition in both countries. China criticized the settlement. Despite this, the two arch-rivals continued…
Syria 2010
Yearbook 2010 Syria. According to COUNTRYAAH, Syria has a population of 16.91 million (2018). The country’s rapprochement with the United States, which began in 2009, halted since Syria tried to persuade Lebanon not to cooperate with the UN tribunal that investigated the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri in 2005 and after it…
Switzerland 2010
Yearbook 2010 Switzerland. A diplomatic dispute arose in February when it became clear that Germany had bought a stolen list of names of German taxpayers with accounts in Switzerland of a former bank employee. According to COUNTRYAAH, Switzerland has a population of 8.545 million (2019). Germany defended the purchase and referred to a similar purchase…
Sweden
The Carolinian era At the Riksdag in 1655, Karl X Gustav enforced a decision on partial reduction, which had been required by the saints since 1644. At the same time, a decision was made to start a war again, this time against Poland. Great initial success was followed by growing difficulties when Russia first and…
Suriname 2010
Yearbook 2010 Suriname. The year was very successful for Suriname’s former dictator, 64-year-old Desi Bouterse. On May 25, his coalition Mega Combinatie won 23 out of 41 seats in Congress, while President Runaldo Ronald Venetian’s New Front became the second largest group with 13 seats. Thus, the game began to mobilize support for Bouterses candidacy…
Sudan 2010
Yearbook 2010 Sudan. According to COUNTRYAAH, Sudan has a population of 41.8 million (2018). Presidential and parliamentary elections were held in April, the first since 1986 to be held in completely democratic forms. But the elections did not bode well for the 2011 referendum on a possible division of the country. Most opposition candidates for…
Sri Lanka 2010
Yearbook 2010 Sri Lanka. According to COUNTRYAAH, Sri Lanka has a population of 21.67 million (2018). President Mahinda Rajapaksa was re-elected in January with 57.8 percent of the vote. His closest challenger, former commander-in-chief and deadly enemy Sarath Fonseka, received 40 percent. They were both former allies, but they faced each other after the army…