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1.
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.
The Kingdom of Sweden occupies the eastern and larger section of the
Scandinavian Peninsula, which is situated in the north-west of Europe.
Of the total area of this Peninsula — about 770 000 sq. km — Sweden
embraces about 448 000 sq. km (173 000 sq. miles) or approximately 58
and of its total population (1912), which is about 8 millions, 5-6 millions
i. e. roughly 70 % live in Sweden.1
Sweden, covering as it does 4-7 % of the area of Europe, is one of the
largest countries of that continent. It is a little smaller than either France
or the German Empire but, on the other hand, it is nearly half as large
again as Great Britain and Ireland. In respect to population Sweden
contains nearly as many people as Belgium, but exceeds Switzerland for
example by more than 60 %.
Owing to its northerly situation the Scandinavian Peninsula is as a
whole thinly populated, though less so than any other country lying in
the same latitude. In respect to the state of agriculture and the density
of population the southernmost parts of Sweden may be compared with
Central Europe.
Sweden is bounded on the East, South and in part also on the "West
by an inland sea and its various arms: the Gulf of Bothnia, the Baltic
Sea, the Sound, the Kattegat and the Skagerrak. Its land boundaries are
those dividing it from Finland and Norway. The remarkable
ethnographical uniformity characterizing Sweden as a nation is paralleled, in
some measure, by the advantageous character on the whole of its
geographical boundaries.
More definitely stated, Sweden is situated between 55° 20’ and 69° 4’ N
Lat., and between 10° 58’ and 24° 10’ Long. East of Greenwich. The latitude
of the Stockholm Observatory is 59° 20’ 32’6"; of the Uppsala Observatory 59’
51’ 29and of the Lund Observatory 55° 41’ 52". The difference in time
1 Cf. State of California, D. S. A., area: 410 000 sq.km; population: 2’6 mill, (approx.
1912).
1 — 133179. Sweden. /.
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