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• Area: 2,523 km²
• Region: Uppsala
• Population: 187,000
• Local Time: GMT +1 (GMT +2 in summer)
• Official Language: Swedish
• Currency: Swedish kronor (SER)
• Characteristics:
- Growing consulting and service businesses is one of four big Swedish cities |
| Uppsala is a central city in the mid-eastern part of Sweden, and it takes less than one hour to get there from Stockholm. It is the best place for businesses, especially in consulting and service. As one of the four big cities in Sweden, it supports education, science, history, and cultural studies. Uppsala University, the first university on the Scandinavian Peninsula, is the top school for natural sciences in north Europe. Therefore, it is not surprising that the city has had eight Nobel Prize winners. There is also the Linné Museum and the 13 century Catholic Church, where Gustav Eriksson Vasa and Carl von Linné (Carolus Linaeus), the famous botanist, are buried. |
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Uppsala University: Uppsala University, the first university on the Scandinavian Peninsula, was built in 1477. The University was built for Swedish students to have cultural independence from Denmark. After the University was established, it suffered from lack of funds and disputes from outside and within. Since Gustav II donated the land in 1624 and the university's constitution was written in 1626, Uppsala University has become the center of studies along with Copenhagen University. The university curriculum is as follows: religion, law, medicine, literature, social sciences, pharmaceutical studies, and sciences. The University also has a famous seismological institution. |
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Uppsala Castle: This castle is located on the highest point of Uppsala and was built during the Dark Ages. Gustav Eriksson Vasa built it in 1540. It was renovated in the 18th century. |
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Linné Museum: This place served used as a house and a laboratory for Linen, the world botanist and Nobel winner. He started to teach at the Uppsala University in 1738, and many students gathered to take his lectures. He fell in class in 1774 and died in 1778. He developed the system of classification for plants. The museum holds many of Linné's belongings, and paintings by Uppsala's artists. |
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| July 1997 |
Swedish Embassy expressed a desire to develop relationships between Daejeon and Uppsala |
September 16, 1998 ~
September 17, 1998 |
Uppsala's mayor attended the WTA General Meeting and discussed establishing Sister City relationship between relationship the two cities |
March 20, 1999 ~
March 23, 1999 |
Daejeon delegates visited Uppsala and discussed the sister city relationship |
| October 18, 1999 |
Daejeon delegates visited Uppsala and established a Sister City Relationship Agreement |
November 10, 1999 ~
November 13, 1999 |
Attended the First WTA Daejeon Technomart |
August 7, 2001 ~
August 9, 2001 |
Daejeon delegates visited Uppsala to promote the WTA Daejeon Technomart |
November 7, 2001~
November 9, 2001 |
Attended the 2nd WTA Daejeon Technomart |
| June 2002 |
Participation in the Sister City Mayor meeting (Mayor and one person) |
September 1, 2004 ~
September 3, 2004 |
Participation in the 4th WTA General Assembly, visit by Daejeon City Mayor’s cadre |
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- Established relationships with WTA member cities
- Cooperation in the areas of science, and technology, medicine, and engineering
- Cooperation in the social welfare related fields and in establishing relationships between colleges |
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It's Daejeon
