Everything you need to know about Sweden
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.
Read it, then make it stick
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.
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.
Places worth visiting
Essential · Old town
Gamla stan
Stockholm’s old town of narrow lanes leads to the Royal Palace. Ferries leave nearby for the islands of the archipelago.
Explore Stockholm’s islands and old town, then head out to Gotland and north to Lapland’s lights. Essential is our shortlist for a first trip, and worth a detour goes further. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Swedish with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Study for Sweden’s citizenship test
Landet Sverige
Geography, the divisions of the country, the natural resources it lives off, and what the climate act aims at.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Sweden, the countries in white have a guide like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
Europe
- Albania
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kosovo
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Northern Cyprus
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Switzerland
- Türkiye
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Vatican City
Asia
- Afghanistan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- China
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- North Korea
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Turkmenistan
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
North America
Africa
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Republic of the Congo
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- Somaliland
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Western Sahara
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe