The Swedish mile is nowadays, as pointed out, exactly 10 km.
It is used frequently in speech and in newspaper texts as well.
It was however "metrified" when Sweden went metric in the 1880's.
The old mile was 36000 Swedish feet, about 10.7 km. Most Swedish people
however don't know that, since the conversion took place such a long
time ago.
If someone asks for the distance between two cities we would rather
say "sixty miles" than "sixhundred kilometers". (Sextio mil, sexhundra
kilometer).
Miles are almost always used for longer distances. As far as I know, it
is the only quasi-metric unit used in Sweden, but a very useful one, and
it is also used in Norway.
Gustaf, Stockholm, Sweden
