Travel to Sweden

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Last Minute Tips Before you Travel to Sweden

• Time ZoneGMT/UTC +1
• Electricity: 220V, 50 Hz (bring an adapter/transformer for your hair drier, laptop, cellular phone etc.)
• Weights & measures: Metric
• Currency: Swedish krona

Must See - Properties on UNESCO World Heritage List

• Royal Domain of Drottningholm
• Birka and Hovgården
• Engelsberg Ironworks
• Rock Carvings in Tanum
• Skogskyrkogården
• Hanseatic Town of Visby
• Church Village of Gammelstad, Luleå
• Laponian Area
• Naval Port of Karlskrona
• High Coast
• Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland
• Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun
• Varberg Radio Station

Location
Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, Kattegat, and Skagerrak, between Finland and Norway

Capital
Stockholm

Population
9,103,788 (July 2012 est.)

Sweden Regions
Sweden consists of 21 counties (lan, singular and plural) br>Blekinge, Dalarnas, Gavleborgs, Gotlands, Hallands, Jamtlands, Jonkopings, Kalmar, Kronobergs, Norrbottens, Orebro, Ostergotlands, Skane, Sodermanlands, Stockholms, Uppsala, Varmlands, Vasterbottens, Vasternorrlands, Vastmanlands, Vastra Gotalands

Largest cities of Sweden
Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö, Uppsala, Kista, Västerås

Climate
temperate in south with cold, cloudy winters and cool, partly cloudy summers; subarctic in north

Ethnic groups
indigenous population: Swedes with Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks

Religions
Lutheran 87%, other (includes Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist) 13%

Languages
Swedish (official), small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities

Government type
Constitutional Monarchy

Background
A military power during the 17th century, Sweden has not participated in any war for almost two centuries. An armed neutrality was preserved in both world wars. Sweden's long-successful economic formula of a capitalist system interlarded with substantial welfare elements was challenged in the 1990s by high unemployment and in 2000-02 and 2009 by the global economic downturns, but fiscal discipline over the past several years has allowed the country to weather economic vagaries. Sweden joined the EU in 1995, but the public rejected the introduction of the euro in a 2003 referendum.

Flag of Sweden
Blue with a golden yellow cross extending to the edges of the flag; the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side in the style of the Dannebrog (Danish flag); the colors reflect those of the Swedish coat of arms - three gold crowns on a blue field

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