- Officially realm of Sweden, country of the Northern Europe situated in the oriental part of the Scandinavian peninsula. Sweden is lined in the North and on the West by Norway, in the northeast by Finland, in the East by the Gulf of Buthnia and the Baltic Sea, and in the southwest by the resund, Kattegat and Skagerrak. It also ncludes the islands of Gotland and of Öland, in the Baltic Sea. With 449 964 km2, Sweden is the fourth country of Europe by the surface. Stockholm is its capital and main city.
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