Kingdom of Sweden
Europa del Norte
Nordic · Innovative · Serene
Sweden gave the world ABBA, IKEA, Spotify, Minecraft, and the safety match — from a country of just 10 million.
Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Gothenburg, Malmö, Uppsala — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Stockholm is built across 14 islands where Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea, and Gamla Stan — the Old Town on its own island — contains a medieval street grid and the Baroque Royal Palace, whose 1,430 rooms make it the world's largest palace still in use by a reigning monarch.
El idioma oficial es sueco, que refleja el patrimonio cultural del país y lo conecta con una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Suecia se contacta mediante el código +46. Sweden's Law of Jante, articulated by Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose in 1933 but recognised immediately as describing a real Scandinavian social code, discourages individual boastfulness and prizes collective modesty — an ethic that shapes corporate culture, political discourse and the social awkwardness of accepting a compliment.
Suecia comparte sus fronteras con Noruega, Finlandia. El tráfico rodado circula por la derecha, en consonancia con la convención de
La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+01:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.
Sweden produced Björn Borg, whose five consecutive Wimbledon titles between 1976 and 1980 and four French Opens in the same period made him the sport's first rock-star figure — and the ice hockey programme has been equally consistent, with the Tre Kronor winning seven World Championships since 1990.
Allemansrätten — the right to roam — is enshrined in Swedish law, granting every person the right to walk, camp and pick berries across any land, including private property, a legal tradition that has shaped a national relationship with forests and lakes fundamentally different from most of the property-conscious world.