Linköping is Sweden's fifth-largest city and home to Saab's aerospace operations and Linköping University (
林雪平大学), one of the country's leading research institutions. The Chinese name is purely phonetic —
林 (lín 'forest'),
雪 (xuě 'snow'),
平 (píng 'flat') happen to evoke a snowy plain, but that is coincidence.
