Explore Sweden in Europe - Sweden Tourism Info

Description and Basic Information

Sweden with its capital Stockholm is located in Europe (Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea). It covers some 449,965 square kilometres (slightly larger than California) with 9,045,000 citizens. Swedish, Northern Sami and Finnish are the languages used by people in Sweden (consider regional differences). It is charing borders with Norway and Finland.

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About Sweden

The topography features mostly flat or gently rolling lowlands with mountains in west. The average density of population is about 20 per km². The climate in can be described as temperate in south with cold, cloudy winters and cool, partly cloudy summers with subarctic in north. Potential natural disasters are ice floes in the surrounding waters, especially in the Gulf of Bothnia, can interfere with maritime traffic.

To reach someone in Sweden dial +46 prior to a number. There are 5,146,000 installed telephones. And there are 11,426,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900, 1800 MHz and 3G. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".se". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 230V - 50Hz.

The country consists of 21 regions/states which are listed below.

Regions/States of Sweden

Swedish Tourism Information

Official Tourism Office

Website: Sweden Tourism

P O Box 3030
Kungsgatan 36
SE-103 61 Stockholm
Sweden

Unesco World Heritage Properties

Sweden has 8 more world heritage locations. To see all of them, visit the Sweden Unesco Heritage location overview.

Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland

The southern part of the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea is dominated by a vast limestone plateau. Human beings have lived here for some five thousand years and adapted their way of life to...

Birka and Hovgården

The Birka archaeological site is located on Björkö Island in Lake Mälar and was occupied in the 9th and 10th centuries. Hovgården is situated on the neighbouring island of...

Church Village of Gammelstad, Luleå

Gammelstad, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, is the best-preserved example of a 'church village', a unique kind of village formerly found throughout northern Scandinavia. The 424 wooden houses,...

Engelsberg Ironworks

Sweden's production of superior grades of iron made it a leader in this field in the 17th and 18th centuries. This site is the best-preserved and most complete example of this type of Swedish...

Hanseatic Town of Visby

A former Viking site on the island of Gotland, Visby was the main centre of the Hanseatic League in the Baltic from the 12th to the 14th century. Its 13th-century ramparts and more than 200...

Demographic Information

Age Distribution in Sweden

Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Natural Population Growth

Population, Migration and Growth: The population in Sweden is growing at an rate of 0.16% (or by 14,428 citizens). Each year 14,972 people enter this country (or 1.70 per thousand citizens) - making it an immigration country. This leads to an absolute natural increase rate of the population of -0.01%. Or an total decrease of 544 citizens.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.