Sweden’s coastline is the longest in Europe, stretching 7,300 km.

Over 57 % of Sweden’s total area is covered by forests.

England’s football manager Sven Goran Eriksson is Swedish.

Bandy - a popular Swedish team sport - is a cross between football and ice hockey.

The Stockholm archipelago on the east coast of Sweden is made up of over 25,000 islands covered in forests and meadows.

There are over 100,000 lakes in Sweden.

There are wolves in Sweden - but only about 100 in the whole country!

An old Swedish law called ‘Every Man's Right’ means that it is legal to visit somebody else's land, to bathe in their lake, travel by boat on their river, and pick the wild flowers, mushrooms, berries, fallen cones, acorns and nuts you find there!

In their first three years, the Swedish pop group Abba sold more records than the Beatles.

Swedes drink a lot of coffee - only Americans drink more per person.

Sweden’s capital city Stockholm is built on 14 islands. Water covers one third of the city’s area, and is so clean that you can catch salmon right in the city centre.

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