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South Sweden is situated in the southern part of its country. It is close to Denmark and it borders with the riksområden of Småland and the islands and West Sweden . The most populous cities are Malmö , Helsingborg , Lund , Karlskrona , Kristianstad , Landskrona and Trelleborg .
Småland (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈsmǒːland] ⓘ) is a historical province (landskap) in southern Sweden. Småland borders Blekinge, Scania, Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and the island Öland in the Baltic Sea. The name Småland literally means "small lands", referring to many small historic provinces from which it was composed.
Scania, also known by its native name of Skåne [3] (Swedish: [ˈskôːnɛ] ⓘ), is the southernmost of the historical provinces (landskap) of Sweden.Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conterminous with Skåne County, created in 1997.
Finnish and Swedish Lappland was also one province until 1809. Historically, the provinces were grouped in three lands: Götaland, being southern and western Sweden; Svealand being eastern and south-eastern, and Norrland being the entire northern half. The names of the first two refer to ancient tribes, and the third is a geographical reference.
The southern part of it, belonging to Gothenburg Municipality, is part of Västergötland. The northwestern border is demarcated by Sweden's largest lake Vänern, and the north-eastern border is demarcated by Sweden's second largest lake Vättern. Within the province the shoreline of Lake Vänern is 330 kilometres (210 mi) long, and along ...
Söderåsen is a northwest–southwest elongated bedrock ridge in Scania in southern Sweden. On Söderåsen is Scania's highest point at 212 m (696 ft) above sea level. It is intersected by several fissure valleys. The ridge extends from Röstånga in the southeast to the Åstorp in northwest.
Södermanland (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈsø̂ːdɛrmanˌland] or ⓘ), [2] locally Sörmland, sometimes referred to under its Latinized form Sudermannia or Sudermania, is a historical province (or landskap) on the south eastern coast of Sweden. It borders Östergötland, Närke, Västmanland and Uppland.
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.