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ESA satellite photo of Stockholm. The City of Stockholm is situated on fourteen islands and on the banks to the archipelago where Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea. The city centre is virtually situated on the water. The area of Stockholm is one of several places in Sweden with a joint valley terrain. [1]
Stockholm (Swedish: [ˈstɔ̂kː(h)ɔlm] ⓘ) [10] is the capital and most populous city of Sweden, as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.Approximately 1 million people live in the municipality, [11] with 1.6 million in the urban area, [12] and 2.4 million in the metropolitan area. [11]
The Swedish agricultural sector (excluding forestry and the food industry) employs 177,600 people, approximating to 1.5 percent of the Swedish workforce. There are 72,000 farms and other agricultural businesses, together representing half the 1970 equivalent. The average farm has 88 acres (36 ha) of fields. [1]
Both before and after this period, some new Germanic dishes were also brought in by immigrants, such as people related to the Hanseatic League, settling in Stockholm, Visby, and Kalmar. Swedish traders and aristocrats naturally also picked up some food traditions in foreign countries; cabbage rolls ( kåldolmar ) being one example.
The geography of food is a field of human geography.It focuses on patterns of food production and consumption on the local to global scale. Tracing these complex patterns helps geographers understand the unequal relationships between developed and developing countries in relation to the innovation, production, transportation, retail and consumption of food.
This glossary of geography terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in geography and related fields, including Earth science, oceanography, cartography, and human geography, as well as those describing spatial dimension, topographical features, natural resources, and the collection, analysis, and visualization of geographic ...
The Stockholm syndrome — initially dubbed “Norrmalmstorg syndrome,” after the square where the bank heist took place — has since been used in connection with hostage-takings around the ...
Geography of Stockholm. Stockholm is: a city. capital of Sweden; Population of Stockholm: 949,761; Area of Stockholm: 188 km 2 (73 sq mi) Stockholm. Stockholm.