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Sweden, formally theKingdom of Sweden, is aNordic country located on theScandinavian Peninsula inNorthern Europe. It bordersNorway to the west and north, andFinland to the east. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest Nordic country by both area and population, and is thefifth-largest country in Europe. Its capital and largest city isStockholm. Sweden has a population of 10.6 million, and a low population density of 25.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (66/sq mi); 88% ofSwedes reside in urban areas. They are mostly in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden's urban areas together cover 1.5% of its land area. Sweden has a diverseclimate owing to the length of the country, which ranges from55°N to69°N.
Sweden has been inhabited sinceprehistoric times around 12,000 BC. The inhabitants emerged as theGeats (Swedish:Götar) andSwedes (Svear), who formed part of the sea-faring peoples known as theNorsemen. A unified Swedish state was established during the late 10th century. In 1397, Sweden joined Norway and Denmark to form the ScandinavianKalmar Union, which Sweden left in 1523. When Sweden became involved in theThirty Years' War on the Protestant side, an expansion of its territories began, forming theSwedish Empire, which remained one of thegreat powers of Europe until the early 18th century. During this era Swedencontrolled much of the Baltic Sea. Most of the conquered territories outside the Scandinavian Peninsula were lost during the 18th and 19th centuries. The eastern half of Sweden, present-day Finland, was lost toImperial Russia in 1809. The last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Sweden by military means forced Norway into apersonal union, a union which lasted until 1905.
Sweden is a highly developed country ranked fifth in theHuman Development Index. It is aconstitutional monarchy and aparliamentary democracy, withlegislative power vested in the 349-memberunicameralRiksdag. It is aunitary state, divided into21 counties and290 municipalities. Sweden maintains aNordic social welfare system that providesuniversal health care andtertiary education for its citizens. It has theworld's 14th highest GDP per capita andranks very highly inquality of life,health,education, protection ofcivil liberties, economic competitiveness,income equality,gender equality andprosperity. Sweden joined theEuropean Union on 1 January 1995 andNATO on 7 March 2024. It is also amember of theUnited Nations, theSchengen Area, theCouncil of Europe, theNordic Council, theWorld Trade Organization and theOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). (Full article...)
Good article -show anotherThe Cottage (Swedish:Stugan) is anadventure video game that was initially made available in 1978 for theDEC-10mainframe computer Oden in Stockholm, and later published byScandinavian PC Systems forIBM PCs in 1986 in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and English. It was the first publicly available Swedish adventure game and one of the first commercial Swedish video games.
The game is set in a cottage inSmåland, Sweden; the player explores the cottage and its surroundings by typing simple commands to indicate what they want to do or where they want to go. They aim to find items and perform certain actions to raise their score and rank, while avoiding traps and enemy characters, with the ultimate goal of getting inducted into the cottage council. (Full article...)
I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović (Swedish:Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimović) is anautobiography of the Swedish footballerZlatan Ibrahimović, written alongside the Swedish authorDavid Lagercrantz and first published in Swedish in 2011 byAlbert Bonniers Förlag. The book was commercially successful, selling its first edition of 100,000 copies on its first day, and 800,000 by 2017. It was translated into other languages, including a 2013 English translation by Ruth Urbom which was published byPenguin Books. A film based on the book was released in Sweden in 2021, titledI Am Zlatan, directed by Jens Sjögren. (Full article...)
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Featured article -show anotherIn September 1967, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands brought theGreek case to theEuropean Commission of Human Rights, alleging violations of theEuropean Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) by theGreek junta, which had taken power earlier that year. In 1969, the Commission found serious violations, includingtorture; the junta reacted by withdrawing from theCouncil of Europe. The case received significant press coverage and was "one of the most famous cases in the Convention's history", according to legal scholarEd Bates.
On 21 April 1967, right-wing army officersstaged a military coup that ousted the Greek government and used mass arrests, purges and censorship to suppress their opposition. These tactics soon became the target of criticism in theParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, but Greece claimed they were necessary as a response to alleged Communist subversion and justified underArticle 15 of the ECHR. In September 1967, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands filed identical cases against Greece alleging violations of most of the articles in the ECHR that protect individual rights. The case was declared admissible in January 1968; a second case filed by Denmark, Norway and Sweden for additional violations, especially ofArticle 3 forbidding torture, was declared admissible in May of that year. (Full article...)
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Subdivisions:Counties of Sweden •Municipalities of Sweden •Provinces of Sweden
History:1975 Occupation of the West German embassy •Ådalen shootings •Consolidation of Sweden •Early Swedish history •Enlightened Absolute Monarchy in Sweden •Early Vasa era •Industrialization of Sweden •Post-war Sweden •Prehistoric Sweden •Rise of Sweden as a Great Power •Suiones •Swedish Empire •Sweden after the Great Northern War •Sweden and the Winter War •Sweden during late 19th century •Sweden during World War II •Swedish allotment system •Swedish emigration to the United States •Union between Sweden and Norway
Politics:Alliance for Sweden •Constitution of Sweden •Foreign relations of Sweden •Government of Sweden •Parliament of Sweden •Riksdag •Swedish general election, 2006 •Swedish general election, 2010 •Swedish neutrality •Swedish welfare
Demographics:Education •Ethnic minorities •Languages •Religion •Subdivisions •Cities •People •Healthcare •Immigration
Culture:Cinema of Sweden •Cuisine of Sweden •Music of Sweden •Sports in Sweden •Swedish literature •Tourism in Sweden
Symbols:Flag •Coat of arms •National anthem
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