Map of Sweden Cities Pictures

Map of Sweden Political Pictures

Map of Sweden Cities Pictures

Area Map of Sweden Cities Pictures

Map of Sweden Cities Pictures

Sweden (i /ˈswiːdən/ swee-dən; Swedish: Sverige arresting ˈsværjɛ, clearly the Kingdom of Sweden if of Swedish: Konungariket Sverige, is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden shares borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the east, and is affiliated to Denmark by Øresund Bridge.

At 450,295 aboveboard kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the third better country in the European Abutment by area, with a absolute citizenry of about 9.4 million. Compared to continental Europe, Sweden has a almost low citizenry body of 21 citizenry per aboveboard kilometre (54 /sq mi) with the citizenry concentrated to the southern bisected of the country. Over 85% of the citizenry alive in burghal areas. Sweden's basic burghal is Stockholm, and with a burghal citizenry of over 2 million, it is additionally Sweden's better city.

Sweden emerged as an absolute and unified country during the Middle Ages. In the 17th century, the country broadcast its territories to anatomy the Swedish Empire. The authority grew to be one of the abundant admiral of Europe in the 17th and aboriginal 18th century. Best of the baffled territories alfresco the Scandinavian Peninsula were absent during the 18th and 19th centuries. The eastern bisected of Sweden, abreast Finland, was absent to Russia in 1809. The aftermost war in which Sweden was anon complex was in 1814, back Sweden by aggressive agency affected Norway into a claimed union. Back then, Sweden has been at peace, adopting a non-aligned adopted action in peacetime and neutrality in wartime. Sweden has been a affiliate of the European Abutment back 1 January 1995 and is a affiliate of the OECD.

Today, Sweden is a built-in absolution with a aldermanic capitalism of government and a awful developed economy. An automated and abstruse baton in several fields, Sweden had the fastest bread-and-butter growth the accomplished innovation, and the best aggressive abridgement in the European Abutment in 2010. Having had one of the world's accomplished standards of active for hundreds of years, the country is accepted for its tolerant, civil and autonomous society.