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EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TODAY: SWEDEN

Sweden shares a hilly border with Norway to the west, and a narrow border with Finland to the northeast. The remainder of the nation borders the sea. The Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea lie to the east. Waterways separate Sweden from Denmark: the Skagerrak, Kattegat, and Öresund straits lie to the south and southwest. Two large islands in the Baltic Sea, Gotland and Öland, are also Swedish territories. Thousands of tiny, rock-covered islands are scattered along Sweden’s Baltic coastline, protecting the mainland from the open sea. Highlands, Marsh, and Woodlands Sweden can be separated into three distinct regions: Norrland , or Northland, in the north; Svealand , or Land of the Swedes, in the center; and Götaland , or Land of the Goths, in the south. ABOVE: The Beach of Grenen is a sandbar at the junction between the strait of Skagerrak (part of the North Sea) and the Kattegat Sea.

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