Sweden (swe)

Sweden

Sweden ranks 220th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Leeds, Heidelberg, and Bogotá. Memorable people born in Sweden include Oleg of Novgorod, Haakon VI of Norway, and Catherine of Vadstena. Memorable people who died in Sweden include Björn Ironside, Per Brahe the Younger, and Ulvhild Håkansdotter. Sweden has been the birth place of many soccer players and athletes and the death place of many politicians and soccer players. Sweden is located in Sweden.

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge–tunnel across the Öresund. At 447,425 square kilometres (172,752 sq mi), Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of 25.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (66/sq mi), with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas, which cover 1.5% of the entire land area, in the central and southern half of the country. Read more on Wikipedia