https://www.euronews.com/travel/2023/10/26/sweden-or-switzerland-swedish-tourist-board-launches-campaign-to-explain-the-difference
Every year, 120,000 people ask Google whether they are the same country.
Both named in honor of Brendan Fraser’s classic performance in the live action adaptation of George of the Jungle (1997).
Georgia gets double points because it was also known as Iberia for a long tìme, completely unrelated to the peninsula at the opposite end of Europe
This is the best summary I could come up with:
During a NATO summit speech last year, US President Joe Biden erroneously referenced Switzerland while discussing Sweden’s bid to join the military alliance.
In the satirical video, an official representative standing at a podium between two Swedish flags addresses the “leaders and citizens of Switzerland.”
Switzerland can talk about mountain tops, yodelling and watches, for example, but Sweden has a communication monopoly over rooftop bars, silence and forgetting about time.
“As long as both tourism organisations stick to this division in all communication with the outside world, the confusion should come to an end,” Sweden proposes.
If you like historic banks, head to Switzerland, but if you prefer strolling down beaches and sandbanks, you should visit Sweden, the tourist board says.
Finally, the tourist board reminds visitors that while Switzerland is a country of “many interesting sounds” like yodelling and cowbells, Sweden is a place of peace and quiet where the soundscapes will help you “wind down and connect with nature.”
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https://www.huskichocolate.com/
Huski Chocolate was born In the mountains of Arctic Sweden in the winter of 2012. The vison of two Nordic adventurers, Linus Wessman and Robin Hallberg, they wanted to create an unrivalled, all- natural hot chocolate that would bring comfort to the cold and strength to the brave in the most challenging of conditions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punish_(band)
Punish is a technical-death-metal band from Switzerland, formed in 1996. The band has shared the stage with international bands including: Artillery, Atheist, Belphegor, Cannibal Corpse, Destruction, Exhumed, Hour of Penance and Illdisposed.
Apparently so.
120.000 google searches annually feels like a niche problem. Switzerland and Sweden share exactly two starting letters, I doubt that everyone with functioning basic pattern recognition is capable of mixing those names up too much.
I doubt it's really that much of an issue, but it's a decent hook for a lighthearted tourism campaign, which this probably is.
I think English-speakers are not the problem here. In Spanish it is "Suiza" and "Suecia", which is actually confusing.