What country in Europe is the most similar to the United States?

What country in Europe is the most similar to the United States?

Politically, none. But if you are looking for a place where you could give yourself to the illusion of being in a New England state or even Alaska every now and then, Sweden will work well.

When you cruise through a Swedish suburb, and can ignore the odd car of clearly Europe only spec, you may feel like you are in a really pretty corner of Connecticut or Massachusetts.

And further north, where I live, you can go days thinking you are in the state of Maine, or Alaska. Here, some images from my neck of the woods, Jämtland and Västernorrland, Sweden:

Things get more European once you get into city centres, of course. There, the mimickry clearly breaks down. But perhaps that’s not such a bad thing:

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