The Sweden guide
Everything you need to know about Sweden, all in one place
Understand Sweden before you travel or make the move. Explore interactive maps and practical facts about daily life. Learn about Swedish culture and pick up the language you will need along the way. It is your complete guide to experiencing the country with confidence.
Sweden · Facts
Read it, then make it stick
Selected topic
Geography of Sweden
Forest covers roughly seventy percent of Sweden, close to 100,000 lakes fill the gaps, and more islands lie off its coast than off the coast of any other country. The second round leaves the land for the cities, where nearly all of the ten and a half million people live.
Sweden · Maps
Know the shape of the country
Three maps of Sweden itself, drawn from the same files the rounds are played on. Counties are the frame everything else sits in; the towns and the water go inside it.
Pick a map. It opens and plays right here.
Sweden · Words
Take Swedish with you
Lesson 1 of 10
Greetings and politeness
Hello, thanks, please: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Sweden · Citizenship test
Study for Sweden’s citizenship test
Unit 1 of 20
Landet Sverige
Geography, the divisions of the country, the natural resources it lives off, and what the climate act aims at.
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