Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Stockholm
- Region
- Europe, Northern Europe
- Population
- 10,596,620 (2025)
- Area
- 449,964 km²
- Currency
- Swedish krona (SEK)
- Languages
- Swedish, Northern Sami, Southern Sami, Finnish
- Calling code
- +46
- Internet domain
- .se
- ISO codes
- SE, SWE, 752
- Time zone
- UTC+1:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ### ## (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Sweden covers about 449,964 square kilometres. By area it ranks 57th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Papua New Guinea and a little larger than Uzbekistan. It shares a land border with 2 neighbours: Finland, Norway. Its centre lies at about 62° north, 15° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 10.6 million people live in Sweden (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 93rd most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.13 percent of the world's people. On average there are 24 people to each square kilometre. About 89 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 84 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Swedish, Northern Sami, Southern Sami, Finnish. A person from Sweden is called Swedish.
Money and economy
The currency is the Swedish krona (code SEK, symbol kr). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 669 billion (2025), which is about US$ 63,133 for each person (2025).
Time
Sweden uses one time zone, UTC+1:00 (Europe/Stockholm). Clocks are moved for daylight saving time in part of the year.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Stockholm | 1,515,017 |
| Gothenburg | 608,462 |
| Malmö | 362,133 |
| Uppsala | 177,074 |
| Linköping | 166,673 |
| Örebro | 155,989 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Northern Europe
Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.