Sweden

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

This page is being built. Everything below is a block that is in place and empty. Each one says which kind of empty it is, because those are different facts: nobody has looked yet is not the same claim as we looked and there was nothing, and this page will never let one stand in for the other.

Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Sweden. Sweden is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. No contested area from this source overlaps it. 35 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 2.8°E to 32.5°E and 54.1°N to 70.3°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.

Sweden is filled. The 11 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Sweden. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

35 parts of Sweden in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 62.2°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 2.8°E–32.5°E, 54.1°N–70.3°N.

Disputed areas

none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Sweden. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

  1. News sources

    2 sources from Swedenin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.

    • Dagens Nyheter
    • SVT Nyheter

    sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated source present

  2. Official alerts

    An official alerting source is connected for Sweden: MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET).

    This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.

  3. National legislature

    Parliament of Sweden ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Stockholm

    17°C / 63°FOvercastwind 20 km/h / 13 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Stockholm, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:27 AM · sunset 6:53 PM12h 26m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    SWEuncited
    Driving side
    rightcited
    Mains voltage
    230 Vcited
    Capital
    Stockholmuncited
    Official languages
    6 official languagesFinnish, Meänkieli, Romani, Swedish, Sámi, Yiddish
    uncited
    Plug types
    Type C (Europlug), Type F (Schuko)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    regeringen.se ↗Recorded by us, not by the source: Government Offices of Sweden (Regeringskansliet) — attested by the site or its responsible agency, recorded 2026-08-07. We have not tested whether it loads.Sweden uses a plain .se ccTLD. The English edition is government.se, which states in its own words that both are the official sites of the Government.cited
    Country-branding site
    sweden.se ↗Not a government portal.

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Sweden: the UN's 2025 estimate is 10,596,620 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 3.1 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    10,596,620 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    10,569,709 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 3.1 more an hour (26,929 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    10,596,6202025
    GDP
    668,998,664,0822025
    GDP per capita
    63,1332025
    Life expectancy at birth
    84.1 years2024
    Exports
    53.2%2025
    Imports
    51.1%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  9. World Heritage Sites

    15 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. Drottningholm Palace · inscribed 1991

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    2. Birka and Hovgården · inscribed 1993
    3. Engelsberg Ironworks · inscribed 1993
    4. Rock Carvings in Tanum · inscribed 1994
    5. Skogskyrkogården · inscribed 1994
    6. Hanseatic town of Visby · inscribed 1995
    7. Gammelstad Church Town · inscribed 1996
    8. Laponian National Park · inscribed 1996
    9. Naval City of Karlskrona · inscribed 1998
    10. High Coast/Kvarken Archipelago · inscribed 2000 · shared with Finland
    11. Southern Öland cultural landscape · inscribed 2000
    12. Falun Mine · inscribed 2001
    13. Grimeton VLF transmitter · inscribed 2004
    14. Struve Geodetic Arc · inscribed 2005 · shared with Belarus, Estonia and 7 more countries
    15. Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland · inscribed 2012

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 112

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    SEK

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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