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Stockholm locals bask in rare sunlight in the Swedish capital.

The Scandinavian country ranked sixth in a new listing of the world's best places to live. Sweden enjoys a high life expectancy, adult literacy rate, school enrollment rate, and GDP per capita, according to 2005 data in the recently released UN Human Development Report 2007/2008.

It is also ranked second, behind Norway, as the nation with the strongest gender empowerment. About 47 percent of Swedish parliament seats are held by women.

In Japan, also a top ten country on the list, women only hold about 11 percent.

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