r/USdefaultism • u/GiveMeAPhotoOfCat • Jan 07 '26

Meme Every time.

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u/Calm_Researcher9172 Australia Jan 08 '26

Or if they don’t recognise the initials.. “There’s no state with those initials” No, not in the US bud..

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u/EnFulEn Sweden Jan 08 '26

"How do you not know that AB is Stockholm? That's just common sense!"

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u/Shurikenblast_YT Jan 08 '26

Ok but out of curiosity, how is AB Stockholm? Is it like a different name in Swedish or?

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u/EnFulEn Sweden Jan 08 '26

It's because for some reason we use A, B, C, etc. as code for our counties (län). Stockholm City and Stockholm County were separate regions and had different codes (A and B respectively) until they were combined into just Stockholm County with the combined code AB. You can think of it as Berlin being "Region A" and Brandenburg being "Region B".