Map of Sweden

Sweden is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 62.0° N, 15.0° E. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Finland and Norway — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Sweden is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Sweden shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Sweden covers about 450,295 km² (173,860 sq mi). That makes it the 55th-largest country in the world by area and the 5th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 40 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 10,605,098, the 90th-largest in the world and the 14th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 1.4% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Sweden has an average population density of about 24 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 14th by population and 5th by area.

The seat of government is Stockholm, and the official currency is the Swedish krona (SEK, kr), and the main official language is Swedish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Sweden carries the ISO country codes SE and SWE, dials on the international calling code +46 and uses the .se internet domain.

Sweden shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Finland (capital Helsinki, about 5,650,325 people) and Norway (capital Oslo, about 5,606,944 people).

By area, Sweden is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 0 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 62.0° N, 15.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Sweden within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Stockholm. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Sweden lies about 6,882 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Sweden keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Swedish krona (SEK, kr).

The official language is Swedish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +46 and websites commonly use the .se internet domain.

In short, Sweden is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Stockholm. Sweden has a population of about 10,605,098 and covers around 450,295 km² (173,860 sq mi), ranking it 90th in the world by population and 55th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Sweden.

The flag of Sweden has a blue field with a large golden-yellow cross that extend to the edges of the field. The vertical part of this cross is offset towards the hoist side.

The flag of Sweden is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.