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För Sverige – i tiden ("For Sweden – With the Times") | |||||
Anthem | "Du gamla, Du fria" | ||||
Capital (and largest city) |
Stockholm | ||||
Language official |
Swedish | ||||
others | Finnish, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Meänkieli, Sami, Romani, Yiddish | ||||
Demonym | Swedish Swede | ||||
Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy under constitutional republic | ||||
Monarch | Carl XVI Gustaf | ||||
Prime Minister | Stefan Löfven | ||||
Area | 450,295 km2 km² | ||||
Population | 10,377,781 (2020) | ||||
Driving Side | right | ||||
Internet TLD | .se |
Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund Strait. At 450,295 square kilometers (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest country in Northern Europe, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth largest country in Europe by area. The capital city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.4 million of which 2.6 million have a foreign background.
Persons with foreign backgrounds are defined as persons who are foreign-born or born in Sweden with foreign-born parents. It has a low population density of 25 inhabitants per square kilometer (65/sq mi), with 1 437 persons per km2 in localities. 87% of Swedes live in urban areas, which cover 1.5% of the entire land area. The highest concentration is in the central and southern half of the country.
Sweden is part of the geographical area of Fennoscandia. The climate is in general mild for its northerly latitude due to significant maritime influence. Despite the high latitude, Sweden often has warm continental summers, being located in between the North Atlantic, the Baltic Sea, and the vast Eurasian Russian landmass. The general climate and environment vary significantly from the south and north due to the vast latitudinal difference, and much of Sweden has reliably cold and snowy winters. Southern Sweden is predominantly agricultural, while the north is heavily forested and includes a portion of the Scandinavian Mountains.
Sweden is a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary democracy, with legislative power vested in the 349-member unicameral Riksdag. It is a unitary state, currently divided into 21 counties and 290 municipalities. Sweden maintains a Nordic social welfare system that provides universal health care and tertiary education for its citizens. It has the world's eleventh-highest per capita income and ranks very highly in quality of life, health, education, protection of civil liberties, economic competitiveness, income equality, gender equality, prosperity, and human development. Sweden joined the European Union on January 1, 1995, and also a member of the World Treaty Organization (NATO in OTL) in 1947. It is also a member of the League of Nations, the Council of Europe, the International Trading Company, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).