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V.
OCCUPATIONS AND INDUSTRIES.
A GENERAL SURVEY.
Sweden is among the number of larger European countries, with
extent principally from north to south. This circumstance accounts
for the exceedingly great variety of climate and conditions connected
therewith that is to be found within the borders of the country, it
being far greater than in the majority of other countries. Thus,
between the luxuriant plains of Skåne and the Alpine wilds of Lappland
the contrast is indeed vast, though the intervening provinces afford a
gradual transit from the one to the other. By reason of its
multifarious possibilities, Sweden may be said to form, as it were, a world by
itself. In configuration, it is one connected body of land, two thirds
of the boundary of which are washed by the sea. In the interior,
there are great numbers of sheets of water (many of them very large)
and of water-courses, some of them large navigable rivers, others again
broad streams with rapids and waterfalls. Of the total area of the
country (44,786,227 hectares) no less than 3,666,739 hectares are water,
leaving a total of 41,119,488 hectares as the actual land area. How
this area is at present apportioned in the different categories: unfertile,
fertile, and the subdivisions of the latter, will be roughly seen from
the figures given in the subjoined Table.
Table 54. The disposition of Sicedish land, in l’JOO.
Parts of the country.* Total area of land. Hectares. Area, in hectares (à 2-47 acres). Per cent.
Arable land and natural meadow. Forests. Other land. Field and meadow. [-Forests.-] {+For- ests.+} Other land.
Skåne................... 1,005,000 655,000 271,000 169,000 59 8 24 8 15-4 I
Sm&land................ 3,048,000 733,000 1,212,000 1,103,000 24 0 39 8 362
Hert of Götaland .... 4,555,000 1,402,000 1,969,000 1,184,000 30 8 43 2 26 0
East Svealand........ 3,362,000 930,000 1,837,000 595,000 27 7 54 6 17-7
West Svealand........ 4,570,000 447,000 3,436.000 687,000 9’8 752 15 0
South Norrland....... 8,905,000 397,000 6,447,000 2,151,000 4 4 71*7 23 9
North Norrland....... 15,494,000 454,000 5,535,000 9,505,000 2 9 35 7 614
Total 41,110,000 5,018,000 20,707,000 15,304,000 12 2 50^4 374 I
* Småland here also includes Öland. West Svealand = The Läns of Vermland and
Kopparberg. North Norrland = The Läns of Vesterbotten and Norrbotten.
Sweden. 32
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