Place details
Place nameSweden
Other namesKonungariket Sverige, Sverige, Kingdom of Sweden, Suède, Royaume de Suède, Schweden, Suecia, Suécia, Svezia, SWE, SE, ISO752, SW00, Swedish
Latitude62
Longitude15
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
European hunters arrived here 12,000 BCE; settled by Svear, Lapps, Herules, Danes, and Goths first millenium BCE; controlled eastern trade route to Byzantium and Baghdad during Viking Era, colonized Russia; united with Denmark and Norway 14-16th centuries, with Norway 19th century; official language is Swedish, though Finnish is also spoken.