Sweden Description

Sweden - a quiet northern village, where wooden houses are painted in red and decorated with national ornaments, lively city, the sea coast with beautiful beaches and bays, over which loom bizarre rocks. Sweden is very diverse and rich in contrasts ...

Sweden is located in Northern Europe, in eastern and southern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula. In the west it borders with Norway, Sweden, on the north-east - with Finland, and from the east and south it is washed by the waters of the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia. In the south of the Straits Öresund, Kattegat and Skagerrak separates Sweden from Denmark. Part of Sweden consists of two large islands in the Baltic - Gotland and Oland.

The relief of the country's elevated, north-western part of the country's mountainous (highest point - Mount Kebnekaise, 2111 m) and is framed to the east a vast plateau in southern terrain is flatter, and abounds in rivers and lakes (in the country, almost 90 thousand water reservoirs). Most of the country covered with forests, vast territory in the north is the tundra zone of the Swedish Lapland. Coastline heavily indented and full of reefs and island groups. The country area is 450 thousand square meters. km.

The capital of Stockholm.