Roughly 70 per cent forest, with about 267,000 islands, more than any other country.
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Sweden
Kingdom of Sweden ยท Sverige
Europe
ยท Northern Europe
0Population
450.3Kkmยฒ of land
$51.62KGDP / person
StockholmCapital
- ISO codes
- SE ยท SWE
- Density
- 23 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Swedish
- Currency
- Swedish krona (SEK)
- Dial code
- +46
- Internet domain
- .se
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 65.8590ยฐ N, 19.0170ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Swedish
- UN region
- Northern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $530.88B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How Sweden stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
87th
of 242 ยท 0.13% of world population
Land area
57th
of 242 ยท 0.30% of world land
GDP per person
25th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
188th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Sweden
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 10,285,453 people, the 87th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.13 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 450,295 kmยฒ, making it the 57th largest country here - about 10.9 times the size of Switzerland.
Population density is about 23 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Stockholm, at 59.35ยฐ N, 18.10ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,264,000.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Finland and Norway.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Stockholm.
The currency is the Swedish krona (SEK, symbol kr).
The official language is Swedish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Europe/Stockholm
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UTC+02:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Stockholm
Stockholm
59.3527ยฐ N, 18.0954ยฐ E
1.26M
2
Malmรถ
Skรฅne
55.5833ยฐ N, 13.0333ยฐ E
269.35K
3
Sundsvall
Vรคsternorrland
62.4001ยฐ N, 17.3167ยฐ E
73.39K
4
Luleรฅ
Norrbotten
65.5966ยฐ N, 22.1584ยฐ E
48.64K
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with Sweden.