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Sweden

Sweden is the largest of the by area and population. Visitors can experience deep forests and many lakes, the heritage from the Viking Age and the 17th-century Swedish Empire, the glamour of the Nobel Prize, and the country's successful pop music scene.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Stockholm and Uppsala.

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is Sweden's capital and largest city, with nearly a million inhabitants in the city, and 2.4 million within . The inner city is made up of 14 islands across Lake Mälaren and three streams into the brackish Baltic Sea, with the with some 24,000 islands, islets and skerries.

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is a university city in Sweden. While sometimes stands in the shade of it maintains a sophisticated identity of its own. Compared to the Swedish capital, is less frantic, with more of a small-town atmosphere, influenced by the student culture and academic traditions of University.

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is Sweden's second largest city with 570,000 inhabitants, and about 1 million in the metropolitan area. The city lies on Sweden's west coast, at the outlet of the Göta river.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Götaland and Svealand.

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is the southernmost of the three lands that make up Sweden. It is home to almost half of Sweden's population and probably even a larger share of its cultural and historical sights.

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is the middle of the three lands of Sweden, between and . It is home to , and a mixed landscape, with archipelagos and plains in the east, forests in the west, and snowy mountains in the north.

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is one of three lands of Sweden, besides and . encompasses two thirds of the country's surface, but no more than 12 per cent of its population; about 1.18 million in 2016.

Sweden

Latitude of center
62° north
Longitude of center
15° east
Population
9,280,000
Area
449,964 km² (173,732 miles²)
Elevation
359 metres (1,178 feet)
Capital
Currency
Krona (SEK)
Phone code
.se
Internet domain
46
Open­Street­Map ID
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Geo­Names ID
2661886
Wiki­data ID
Q34
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Sweden” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Швециа”
  • Achinese: “Swèdia”
  • Adyghe: “Швецие”
  • Adyghe: “Шуецие”
  • Afrikaans: “Swede”
  • Akan: “Sweden”
  • Albanian: “Suedi”
  • Albanian: “Suedia”
  • Amharic: “ስዊድን”
  • Amis: “Sweden”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σουηδία”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σουηκία”
  • Angika: “स्वीडन”
  • Arabic: “السويد”
  • Arabic: “سويد”
  • Arabic: “مملكة السويد”
  • Aragonese: “Suecia”
  • Armenian: “Շվեդիա”
  • Armenian: “Շվեդիայի Թագավորություն”
  • Arpitan: “Suèda”
  • Arpitan: “Suède”
  • Assamese: “চুইডেন”
  • Asturian: “Reinu de Suecia”
  • Asturian: “Suecia”
  • Atayal: “Sweden”
  • Avaric: “Швеция”
  • Awadhi: “स्वीडन”
  • Aymara: “Suecia”
  • Aymara: “Swisya”
  • Azerbaijani: “İsveç”
  • Balinese: “Swédia”
  • Bambara: “Suwɛdi”
  • Bambara: “Swedi”
  • Bashkir: “Швеция”
  • Basque: “Suedia”
  • Bavarian: “Schwedn”
  • Belarusian: “Каралеўства Швэцыя”
  • Belarusian: “Швецыя”
  • Belarusian: “Швэцыя”
  • Bengali: “কোনঙ্গারিকেট স্বেরিজ”
  • Bengali: “সুইডেন রাজ্য”
  • Bengali: “সুইডেন”
  • Bengali: “স্বেরিজ”
  • Betawi: “Swèden”
  • Bhojpuri: “स्वीडन”
  • Bhojpuri: “स्वीडेन”
  • Bishnupriya: “সুইডেন”
  • Bislama: “Sweden”
  • Bislama: “Swiden”
  • Bosnian: “Švedska”
  • Breton: “Sveden”
  • Bulgarian: “Кралство Швеция”
  • Bulgarian: “Швеция”
  • Burmese: “ဆွီဒင်”
  • Burmese: “ဆွီဒင်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Regne de Suècia”
  • Catalan: “Suècia”
  • Cebuano: “Suwesya”
  • Central Bikol: “Suesya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Sweden”
  • Central Kurdish: “سوید”
  • Central Kurdish: “سوێد”
  • Chamorro: “Swesia”
  • Chavacano: “Suecia”
  • Chechen: “Швеци”
  • Cherokee: “ᏍᏫᏕᏂ”
  • Cheyenne: “Sweden”
  • Chinese: “Ruìdiǎn”
  • Chinese: “Sūi-tián”
  • Chinese: “瑞典”
  • Chinese: “瑞典王国”
  • Chinese: “瑞典王國”
  • Church Slavic: “Свєньско”
  • Chuvash: “Сĕвер”
  • Chuvash: “Швеци”
  • Cornish: “Swedherwyk”
  • Corsican: “Svezia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “İsveçiya”
  • Croatian: “Kraljevina Švedska”
  • Croatian: “Švedska”
  • Czech: “Švédské království”
  • Czech: “Švédsko”
  • Dagbani: “Sweden”
  • Danish: “Kongeriget Sverige”
  • Danish: “Sverige”
  • Dhivehi: “ސުވިޑަން”
  • Dimli (individual language): “İswec”
  • Dotyali: “स्वीडेन”
  • Dutch: “Koninkrijk Zweden”
  • Dutch: “Zweden”
  • Dzongkha: “སུའི་ཌན་”
  • Dzongkha: “སུའི་ཌེན”
  • Eastern Mari: “Швеций”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “السويد”
  • Erzya: “Швеция Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Reĝlando Svedio”
  • Esperanto: “Svedio”
  • Esperanto: “Svedujo”
  • Estonian: “Rootsi”
  • Ewe: “Sweden nutome”
  • Ewe: “Sweden”
  • Extremaduran: “Suecia”
  • Extremaduran: “Suécia”
  • Faroese: “Svøríki”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Sweden”
  • Fijian: “Suwiteni”
  • Finnish: “Ruotsi”
  • Finnish: “Ruotsin kuningaskunta”
  • French: “Royaume de Suède”
  • French: “Suède”
  • Friulian: “Svezie”
  • Fulah: “Suwed”
  • Fulah: “Suweed”
  • Gagauz: “Şvețiya”
  • Galician: “Reino de Suecia”
  • Galician: “Suecia”
  • Gan Chinese: “瑞典”
  • Ganda: “Swideni”
  • Ganda: “Swiiden”
  • Georgian: “შვედეთი”
  • Georgian: “შვედეთის სამეფო”
  • Georgian: “შვეცია”
  • German: “Königreich Schweden”
  • German: “Schweden”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Sweden”
  • Gilaki: “سوئد”
  • Gilaki: “سۊئد”
  • Goan Konkani: “Sweden”
  • Goan Konkani: “स्विडन”
  • Gorontalo: “Swedia”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐍅𐌴𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐌹”
  • Greek: “Βασίλειο της Σουηδίας”
  • Greek: “Σουηδία”
  • Guarani: “Suecia”
  • Guarani: “Suésia”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Swèd”
  • Gujarati: “સ્વિડન”
  • Gujarati: “સ્વીડન”
  • Haitian: “Syèd”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sui-tién”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sui-tiên”
  • Hausa: “Suwedan”
  • Hausa: “Sweden”
  • Hawaiian: “Kuekene”
  • Hebrew: “שבדיה”
  • Hebrew: “שוודיה”
  • Hindi: “स्वीडन”
  • Hindi: “स्वीडेन”
  • Hungarian: “Svéd Királyság”
  • Hungarian: “Svédország”
  • Iban: “Sweden”
  • Icelandic: “Svíþjóð”
  • Ido: “Suedia”
  • Igbo: “Sweden”
  • Iloko: “Suesia”
  • Inari Sami: “Ruotâ”
  • Indonesian: “Sweden”
  • Indonesian: “Swedia”
  • Interlingua: “Svedia”
  • Interlingue: “Svedia”
  • Inuktitut: “ᔅᕗᕆᑭ”
  • Irish: “an tSualainn”
  • Irish: “An tSualainn”
  • Italian: “Konungariket Sverige”
  • Italian: “Sverige”
  • Italian: “Svezia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Swiidn”
  • Japanese: “スウェーデン”
  • Japanese: “スウェーデン王国”
  • Japanese: “瑞典”
  • Javanese: “Swèdhen”
  • Javanese: “Swédia”
  • Kabardian: “Шуецэ”
  • Kabardian: “Шуэц”
  • Kabiyè: “Sʊyɛdɩ”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Suésia”
  • Kabyle: “Sswid”
  • Kalaallisut: “Svenskit Nunaat”
  • Kalaallisut: “Sverige”
  • Kalmyk: “Сведин Нутг”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Sveedi”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Sveediko them”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Sveittiko them”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ವೀಡನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Shveciya Korolligi”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Shveciya”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Швеция Корольлиги”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Швеция”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Швеция”
  • Karelian: “Ruočči”
  • Kashmiri: “سُوِڈَن”
  • Kashmiri: “سِوڈَن”
  • Kashmiri: “سویٖڈن”
  • Kashubian: “Szwedzkô”
  • Kazakh: “Швеция”
  • Khmer: “ស៊ុយអែត”
  • Kikuyu: “Cuindeni”
  • Kikuyu: “Sweden”
  • Kikuyu: “Uswidi”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Suwede”
  • Kirghiz: “Швеция”
  • Kölsch: “Shvede”
  • Komering: “Swedia”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Шведму”
  • Komi: “Швеция”
  • Kongo: “Suedi”
  • Korean: “스웨덴”
  • Korean: “스웨리예”
  • Kotava: “Sveriga”
  • Kurdish: “Swêd”
  • Kurdish: “سوید”
  • Ladin: “Svezia”
  • Ladino: “Suesia”
  • Lao: “ສະວີເດັນ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດຊູແອດ”
  • Latgalian: “Švedeja”
  • Latin: “Suecia”
  • Latvian: “Zviedrija”
  • Lezghian: “Швеция”
  • Ligurian: “Svéçia”
  • Limburgan: “Zwede”
  • Lingala: “Swédɛ”
  • Lingala: “Swédi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Sveria”
  • Literary Chinese: “瑞典”
  • Lithuanian: “Švedija”
  • Liv: “Rūotšmō”
  • Livvi: “Ruočči”
  • Livvi: “Ruoččii”
  • Lojban: “sueriges”
  • Lombard: “Svezia”
  • Low German: “Sveden”
  • Low German: “Sweden”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Šwedska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Suwedi”
  • Lule Sami: “Svierik”
  • Luxembourgish: “Schweden”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Suidia”
  • Macedonian: “Шведска”
  • Madurese: “Swedia”
  • Maithili: “स्वीडन”
  • Maithili: “स्वीडेन”
  • Malagasy: “Soeda”
  • Malagasy: “Soedy”
  • Malay: “Sweden”
  • Malay: “سويدن”
  • Malayalam: “സ്വീഡൻ”
  • Maltese: “l-Iżvezja”
  • Maltese: “Renju tal-Iżvezja”
  • Maltese: “Svezja”
  • Maltese: “Żvezja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁ꯭ꯋꯤꯗꯦꯟ”
  • Manx: “Soolynn”
  • Manx: “y Toolynn”
  • Manx: “Yn Toolynn”
  • Maori: “Huitene”
  • Marathi: “स्वीडन”
  • Mazanderani: “سوئد”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sôi-diēng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sūi-tián”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sverige”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sweden”
  • Minangkabau: “Swedia”
  • Mingrelian: “შვედეთი”
  • Mirandese: “Suécia”
  • Moksha: “Шведмастор”
  • Mongolian: “Швед”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “السويد”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سويد”
  • Mossi: “Sweden”
  • Narom: “Suède”
  • Nauru: “Widen”
  • Navajo: “Chʼah Bideeʼí Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Sguezia”
  • Nepali: “स्विडेन”
  • Nepali: “स्वीडेन”
  • Newari: “स्विदेन”
  • Newari: “स्वीडेन”
  • North Ndebele: “Sweden”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sweeden/fe”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sweeden”
  • Northern Luri: “سوئد”
  • Northern Sami: “Ruoŧa gonagasriika”
  • Northern Sami: “Ruoŧŧa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kongeriket Sverige”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sverige”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kongedømet Sverige”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sverige”
  • Norwegian: “Sverige”
  • Novial: “Suedia”
  • Obolo: “Siwiden”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Suècia”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܣܘܝܕ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Swēoland Cynerīce”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Swēoland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sƿēoland”
  • Oriya: “ସ୍ଵିଡେନ”
  • Oriya: “ସ୍ୱିଡେନ”
  • Oriya: “ସ୍ୱେଡେନ୍”
  • Oromo: “Iswiidin”
  • Ossetian: “Швеци”
  • Pali: “स्वीडन”
  • Pampanga: “Suesia”
  • Pampanga: “Suwesya”
  • Pampanga: “Sweden”
  • Pangasinan: “Suesia”
  • Pangasinan: “Sverige”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਵੀਡਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Suecia”
  • Papiamento: “Suesia”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Schweden”
  • Persian: “سوئد”
  • Persian: “سویدن”
  • Picard: “Suède”
  • Piemontese: “Svessia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Swiiden”
  • Pite Sami: “Sverdji”
  • Pite Sami: “Sverrje”
  • Polish: “Królestwo Szwecji”
  • Polish: “Szwecja”
  • Pontic: “Σουηδία”
  • Portuguese: “Reino da Suécia”
  • Portuguese: “Suécia”
  • Pushto: “سويډن”
  • Pushto: “سویډن”
  • Quechua: “Suecia”
  • Quechua: “Suwidsuyu”
  • Quechua: “Suwikusuyu”
  • Romanian: “Suedia”
  • Romansh: “Svezia”
  • Rundi: “Suwedi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Швед”
  • Russia Buriat: “Швеци”
  • Russian: “Sverige”
  • Russian: “Королевство Швеция”
  • Russian: “Швеция”
  • Rusyn: “Швеція”
  • Sakizaya: “Sweden”
  • Samoan: “Suetena”
  • Samoan: “Sweden”
  • Samogitian: “Švedėjė”
  • Sango: “Suêde”
  • Sanskrit: “स्वीडन”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱣᱤᱰᱮᱱ”
  • Saraiki: “سویڈن”
  • Sardinian: “Isvetzia”
  • Sardinian: “Isvètzia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Sweeden”
  • Scots: “Kinrick o Swaden”
  • Scots: “Swaden”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An t-Suain”
  • Serbian: “Švedska”
  • Serbian: “Шведска”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Švedska”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းသုၺ်ႇတိၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Sweden”
  • Shona: “Swidheni”
  • Sicilian: “Sbezzia”
  • Sicilian: “Svezzia”
  • Silesian: “Szwecyjo”
  • Silesian: “Szwecyjŏ”
  • Sindhi: “سوئيڊن”
  • Sindhi: “سويڊن”
  • Sinhala: “ස්වීඩනය”
  • Sinhala: “ස්‍වීඩනය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Ruõcc”
  • Skolt Sami: “Ruõccjânnam”
  • Slovak: “Švédske kráľovstvo”
  • Slovak: “Švédsko”
  • Slovenian: “Konungariket Sverige”
  • Slovenian: “Kraljevina Švedska”
  • Slovenian: “se”
  • Slovenian: “Švedska”
  • Slovenian: “Sverige”
  • Somali: “Iswidhan”
  • Somali: “Iswiidhan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سوئد”
  • Southern Sami: “Sveerje”
  • Southern Sami: “Svöörje”
  • Southern Sotho: “Sweden”
  • Spanish: “Reino de Suecia”
  • Spanish: “Suecia”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Swerigekondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵙⵡⵉⴷ”
  • Sundanese: “Swédia”
  • Swahili: “Uswidi”
  • Swati: “ISwideni”
  • Swedish: “Konungadömet Sverige”
  • Swedish: “Konungariket Sverige”
  • Swedish: “Kungadömet Sverige”
  • Swedish: “Kungariket Sverige”
  • Swedish: “Sverige”
  • Swiss German: “Schwede”
  • Tachelhit: “Sswid”
  • Tachelhit: “Swid”
  • Tagalog: “Kaharian ng Suwesya”
  • Tagalog: “Suwesya”
  • Tagalog: “Sweden”
  • Tahitian: “Tuete”
  • Tajik: “Суэд”
  • Tajik: “Шведсия”
  • Tajik: “Шветсия”
  • Talysh: “Isvec”
  • Tamil: “சுவீடன்”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்வீடன்”
  • Taroko: “Sweden”
  • Tatar: “Швеция”
  • Tatar: “Шевитсә”
  • Telugu: “స్వీడన్”
  • Tetum: “Suésia”
  • Thai: “ซเวเดน”
  • Thai: “ประเทศสวีเดน”
  • Thai: “ราชอาณาจักรสวีเดน”
  • Thai: “สวีเดน”
  • Thai: “สเวียเรีย”
  • Tibetan: “སི་ཝེ་དེན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཧྲུའི་ཏན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ስዊድን”
  • Tigrinya: “ሽወደን”
  • Tok Pisin: “Suwidan”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Sueteni”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Suēteni”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Ruotti”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Schweden”
  • Tsonga: “Sweden”
  • Tumbuka: “Sweden”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “السويد”
  • Turkish: “İsveç Krallığı”
  • Turkish: “İsveç”
  • Turkish: “Konungariket Sverige”
  • Turkish: “Sverige”
  • Turkmen: “Iswiç”
  • Turkmen: “Şwesiýa”
  • Tuvinian: “Швеция”
  • Twi: “Sweden”
  • Tyap: “A̱byintyok Swidin”
  • Tyap: “Swidin”
  • Udmurt: “Швеция”
  • Uighur: “شۋېتسىيە”
  • Uighur: “شىۋېتسىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Королівство Швеція”
  • Ukrainian: “Швеція”
  • Ume Sami: “Ruohtsa”
  • Ume Sami: “Sverjje”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kralestwo Šwedska”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Šwedska”
  • Urdu: “سویڈن”
  • Uzbek: “Shvetsiya”
  • Venetian: “Svèsia”
  • Veps: “Ročinma”
  • Veps: “Ročinman Kunigahuz”
  • Vietnamese: “Thuỵ Điển”
  • Vietnamese: “Thụy Điển”
  • Vietnamese: “Vương quốc Thuỵ Điển”
  • Vietnamese: “Vương quốc Thụy Điển”
  • Vlaams: “Zweedn”
  • Vlax Romani: “Sveko”
  • Volapük: “Svedän”
  • Võro: “Roodsi”
  • Walloon: “Suwede”
  • Walloon: “Suwedwesse”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Suecia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Suwesya”
  • Welsh: “Sweden”
  • Western Armenian: “Շուէտ”
  • Western Balochi: “سویڈن”
  • Western Frisian: “Keninkryk Sweden”
  • Western Frisian: “Sweden”
  • Western Frisian: “Zweden”
  • Western Panjabi: “سویڈن”
  • Wolof: “Suwed”
  • Wolof: “Suweed”
  • Wu Chinese: “瑞典”
  • Yakut: “Сибиэссийэ”
  • Yakut: “Швеция”
  • Yiddish: “שוועדן”
  • Yoruba: “Swídìn”
  • Yoruba: “Swidini”
  • Yue Chinese: “瑞典”
  • Zeeuws: “Zweden”
  • Zhuang: “Nyeiqdenj”
  • Zulu: “i-Sweden”
  • Zulu: “ISwidi”
  • “ma Sensa”
  • “ma Wensa”
  • “Roodsi”
  • “SE”
  • “Suecia”
  • “Suidii”
  • “Švedėjė”
  • “Śvèsia”
  • “Svezzie”
  • “SWE”
  • “Swedia”
  • “स्वीडन”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Sweden”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.