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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 ...
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 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]
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)
Norrland (Northland) today comprises nine provinces in Northern and central Sweden. Until 1645 the provinces of Jämtland and Härjedalen were parts of Norway. In 1809, when Sweden ceded Finland to the Russian Empire, the old province of Lapland was split into Swedish Lapland and Finnish Lapland.
The administrative divisions of the Nordic countries are similar given the countries' shared culture and history. ... Sweden [7] 21 counties (Swedish: län)
Historically, Stockholm was separate from counties and was not under the jurisdiction of the Stockholm County Council until 1967, and some other large cities were in counties but outside regions. The cities handled the responsibilities. The two last such cities were Malmö and Göteborg until 1998.
On 31 December 2017 there were 949,761 residents in Stockholm, of which 234,703 people (24.71%) were born in a country other than Sweden. Divided by country in the table below - the Nordic countries as well as the 12 most common countries of birth outside of Sweden for Swedish residents have been included, with other countries of birth bundled ...