Sweden and Switzerland are too often confused – at least the tourism organisation Visit Sweden thinks so and is launching an advertising campaign to help clear things up.
Switzerland Tourism is relaxed about the news and says Switzerland is “unmistakable” anyway.
“Welcome to Sweden (not Switzerland)” is the title of the video circulated on social media by Visit Sweden. As the Swedish tourism office announced on Tuesday, both countries are beautiful and have the same initial letters in German and English.
But that’s where the similarities should stop, if the Swedes have their way. Every year, 120,000 people even google the question of whether Sweden and Switzerland are the same. In the US, a study by Visit Sweden found that half of the respondents were not sure if there was a difference.
In the Visit Sweden video, a woman dressed in what appears to be official attire addresses the Swiss directly in front of two Swedish flags. She proposes a treaty whereby each country concentrates on its core competencies.
According to this, the Swiss yodel to their hearts’ content in their mountains, while deep silence reigns in Sweden’s majestic nature. And while time is forgotten in Sweden, Switzerland builds luxury watches. …
Video of Sweden Toursim: https://piped.video/watch?v=0oNX_BHgi3c
If this is a real problem, then we can start using Switzerlands propper name Helvetica
Helvetica is a font, definitely not the proper name of Switzerland. https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica
You’re probably thinking of Helvetia, which is neither the real name of Switzerland as it is an allegorical figure which represents Switzerland.
If you want the real official name of Switzerland, then you’ll have to get it into one of the official languages:
On English it would be the Swiss confederation, or… Switzerland in short.