Religion: Luteranos 87%, Catholics, Orthodox, Baptists, Muslims, Jews, Buddhist; Currency: Swedish crown; Population: 9.006.405 Inhabitants Language: Swedish; System of Government: Constitutional monarchy.

It is located in the Eastern part of the Scandinavian peninsula. The north is an area covered with forests, where the iron is operated and the paper factories are located. The central region, with fertile plateaus and plains, is the main industrial zone of the country (metallurgical). The south is an agricultural region: wheat, Popes, sugar beet and bovine cattle ranch are the main activities. It is the area more densely populated with the country. The coastal zones of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea suffer stops levels of contamination.

Sweden is one of the greatest countries of Europe, almost of equal size that Spain, measures of north to the south almost 1,600 kilometers, which is translated in beautiful resistances in the geography and the landscape of the nation. To this the changes are added to him that are lived in the stations of the year, which they transform to the Swedish nature into a color spectacle.
More than half of his surface it is covered with forests, a 16% of mountains and deserts, 10% are covered with beautiful lakes, rivers and humedales and only a 8% are constituted by cultivated earth.
It is considered that the inhabitants in relation to the land extensions are few thanks to which there are virgin landscapes own and strange which they can enjoy, specially to the north in the Laponia, where I mount without trees and low forests exist in the middle of cold winds.
Also, it is worth the trouble to emphasize the High Coast, located to the north, that were declared Patrimony of the Humanity by UNESCO, and the archipelagoes of Stockholm, Sankt Anna and Västervik, with his numerous islands and small barren islands. On the other hand, near the Baltic coast they are two of the important islands of the country, Gotland and Öland, that are characterized by their natural landscape conformed by full meadows of flowers and the thorny limestone stone coast.
The south, Escania call, are the agricultural region, par excellence filled with plains, hills, forests and beaches.

Climate
In spite of its northern location, Sweden enjoys a quite moderate climate, with some differences given the great extension of the country. The summers can be quite warm; more lengths in the south that in the north. The midnight sun can be seen from mid May until half-full of June over I circulate Arctic (between the parallels 66º and 67º). Invier to us they can get to be very cold, specially in the north. Suitable clothes: For the summer light clothes and some article of shelter. For the winter shelter clothes and throughout the year some article for rain.

National celebrations
Good part of the celebrations of the Swedish goes back to own old traditions of the agrarian society that once was, intimately related to the nature and the changes that this one suffers during the year. Between the festividades the 30 of April can be told the night of Valburga, celebrated, when enormous bonfires ignite that symbolize the expulsion of the winter with the purpose of taking step to the summer; San Juan or the solstice of summer, made the 24 of June, moment at which the fertility of the nature in the middle of dances, songs and a delicious food is celebrated intensely; the celebration of the crab, made in August, in which eats great amounts of this crustacean and sings to the light of tenuous lights and a moon that sees come the arrival from the winter; Santa Lucia 13 December, when processions of children and women dressed in white túnicas are organized and crowns of bilberry branches and candles in the head, who are scattering the light in the middle of the dark Nordic winter; and Christmas, characterized by a rich banquet in family and friends in whom it is enjoyed herrings in escabeche, fished macerated, smoked sausage, fried meatballs, and cakes of jengibre like dessert.