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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]
Media related to National Areas of Sweden at Wikimedia Commons Hierarchical list of the Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics - NUTS and the Statistical regions of Europe; Overview map of EU Countries - NUTS level 1. SVERIGE - NUTS level 2; SVERIGE - NUTS level 3; Correspondence between the NUTS levels and the national administrative ...
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Latitude Locations 90° N North Pole: 75° N: Arctic Ocean; Russia; northern Canada; Greenland: 60° N: Oslo, Norway; Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; major parts of Nordic countries in EU; St. Petersburg, Russia; southern Alaska United States; southern border of the Yukon and the Northwest territories in Canada; Shetland, UK (Scotland)
In 2000, the Church of Sweden was separated from the state. Sweden was the second Nordic country to disestablish its state church (after Finland did so in the Church Act of 1869). [256] At the end of 2022, 52.8% of Swedes belonged to the Church of Sweden; [257] this number has been decreasing by 1-2 percentage points each year since 2001.
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden; lit. ' the North ') [2] are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.It includes the sovereign states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway [a] and Sweden; the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland; and the autonomous region of Åland.
Daniel Solander became the first Swedish person to ever visit Brazil when he came to the country in 1768. [11] Mass emigration from Norway started circa 1865–1866, after the civil war was over. Several ship-owners saw the opportunity to earn good money by transporting migrants to the New World. United States, Canada and Brazil received many ...
The area of Stockholm is one of several places in Sweden with a joint valley terrain. [1] In these landscapes erosion along geological joints has split the flattish upper surfaces into low-lying plateaus. [2] In the case of Stockholm the plateau surfaces are remnants of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain. [1]