Well physically, Swedish and Finnish keyboards are exactly the same. Many 
vendors do label their keyboards for the Swedish market as "Swe/Fi", 
"Swedish/Finnish" or something similar. Other do have different labels even 
though the actual keyboards do not
differ.

Look at IBM for instance, a well reputed hardware vendor:

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/topics/keyboards/KBD285.jsp
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/topics/keyboards/KBD153.jsp

Actually Swedish is one of the official languages of Finnland
and Sweden and Finnland have historical bonds that may
not remind all of a happy past but that still may make sense
for keeping the same physical layout for those two countries.
And since many memories are quite bad having two names
also is a sensible solution, even if it stirs up confusion for
computer users.

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Installer detects Finnish keyboard instead of Swedish
https://launchpad.net/bugs/35611

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