Stockholm (swe)

Stockholm

Stockholm ranks 16th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Budapest, Madrid, and Philadelphia. Memorable people born in Stockholm include Alfred Nobel, Olof Palme, and Ingrid Bergman. Memorable people who died in Stockholm include René Descartes, Astrid Lindgren, and Svante Arrhenius. Stockholm has been the birth place of many actors and politicians and the death place of many politicians and writers. Stockholm is located in Sweden.

Stockholm 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, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. The city serves as the county seat of Stockholm County. Read more on Wikipedia