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Map of Sweden. Much of Sweden is heavily forested, with 69% [1] of the country being forest and woodland, while farmland constitutes only 8% of land use. [2] Sweden consists of 39,960 km 2 of water area, constituting around 95,700 lakes. [3] [A] The lakes are sometimes used for water power plants, especially the large northern rivers and lakes.
Geography of Sweden. Sweden is: a Nordic country; Location: The regions that Sweden is located in are: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Eurasia. Europe. Northern Europe. Scandinavia. Scandinavian Peninsula; Time zone: Central European Time , Central European Summer Time ; Extreme points of Sweden. High: Kebnekaise 2,104 m (6,903 ft)
Sweden, [f] formally the Kingdom of Sweden, [g] [h] is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), [ 4 ] Sweden is the largest Nordic country and the fifth-largest country in Europe.
Along the southwest coast of Sweden, the Mylonite Zone separates high-pressure granulite and charnockite from medium-grade metamorphic rocks in the Median zone. For the most part, the rocks in the orogen were affected first by the Gothian tectonic event, 1.65-1.56 billion years ago, and then by the Sveconorwegian Orogeny from 1.1 to 900 million ...
The names of the first two refer to ancient tribes, and the third is a geographical reference. They are still commonly used as geographical references. The boundaries have changed over time, with the most significant in 1658 (the cession of provinces from Denmark-Norway to Sweden) and 1812 (due to the loss of Finland to Russia in 1809).
Area towns Ånge and Östersund often claim to be the geographical center of Sweden.. Other places have been claimed to be the centre of Sweden, using differing methods. The most prominent is Ytterhogdal in Hälsingland, based on the methodology of calculating the latitude for the point halfway between the northernmost (Treriksröset) and southernmost (southern tip of Skåne) points, and then ...
Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 190 %. Geographic limits of the map: N: 60.86° N; S: 55.1° N; W: 10.4° E; E: 19.867° E; Date: 7 February 2009: Source: Sweden location map.svg by NordNordWest cropped so as to only include bottom 40%: Author: NordNordWest: Permission (Reusing this file) License remains the same as for original
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