europe • SWE
Sweden
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62° N / 15° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Stockholm
- Population
- 10,569,709 2024
- Area
- 450,295 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Swedish
- Currency
- Swedish krona (SEK)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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Discover Sweden
FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Sweden
Sweden (Swedish: Sverige) is the largest of the Nordic countries 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. Sweden has 270,000 islands with many open to visit through the right to roam.
Landscape & landmarks
Sweden has more palaces and castles (slott) and manors (herrgård) than other Nordic countries. Eleven of them belong to the Swedish monarchy; most of them are open to the public. Stockholm Palace (Stockholm/Gamla Stan), Rosendal (Stockholm/Djurgården), Haga, Gustav III:s pavilion and Ulriksdal (Solna), Drottningholm and Kina (Ekerö), Tullgarn (Södertälje) and Rosersberg (Sigtuna) are within greater Stockholm. Gripsholm (Mariefred) and Strömsholm (Hallstahammar) are further away.Read the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
Traditional everyday dishes are called husmanskost (pronounced whos-mans-cost). Some of them are: […] Pickled herring (sill) is eaten with bread or potatoes for summer lunch or as a starter on the smörgåsbord, at traditional holidays. […] Many forms of salmon (lax), especially cured salmon (gravlax). […] Meatballs (köttbullar), the internationally most famous Swedish dish.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-17. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
A few more connections
- Highest mountain source-listed
- Kebnekaise Wikidata record ↗
Cited reference ↗
Wikidata, CC0 1.0. Source-matched, not independently certified. Observation year unavailable; retrieved 2026-09-27.
A little more to discover +
- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Northern Europe
- Calling code
- +46
- Internet domain
- .se
- Land border codes
- FIN, NOR
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .se. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.