Kingdom of Sweden
Motto: (royal) För Sverige – i tiden "[a] "For Sweden – With the Times"[1] Anthem: Du gamla, Du fria [b] "Thou ancient, thou free" )Show globe Show map of Europe Capitaland largest city
Stockholm 59°21′N 18°4′E / 59.350°N 18.067°E / 59.350; 18.067 Official languages Swedish [c] National minority languages Ethnic groups (2019)
74.5% Swedish background 25.5% foreign background[2] Religion (2017)
66.8% Christianity Church of Sweden [a] Christian No religion Islam Others [8] [9] Demonym(s) Government Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy Carl XVI Gustaf Andreas Norlén Stefan Löfven Legislature Riksdag • A unified Swedish kingdom established
By the early 12th century 1397–1523 4 November 1814 – August 1905[10] 1 January 1995 • Total
450,295 km2 (173,860 sq mi) (55th ) • Water (%)
8.37 (as of 2015)[11] • February 2021 estimate
[12] 88th )• Density
25/km2 (64.7/sq mi) (198th ) GDP (PPP ) 2020 estimate • Total
[13] 39th )• Per capita
[13] 16th )GDP (nominal) 2020 estimate • Total
[13] 23rd )• Per capita
[13] 12th )Gini (2020) [14] low HDI (2019) [15] very high 7th Currency Swedish krona (SEK )Time zone UTC +1CET )UTC +2CEST )Date format YYYY-MM-DD Driving side right[e] Calling code +46 ISO 3166 code SE Internet TLD .se [f] ^ För Sverige – I tiden " has been adopted by Carl XVI Gustaf as his personal motto.^ Du gamla, Du fria ^ [16] [17] officially recognised as minority languages :[18] Finnish , Meänkieli , Romani , Sami , and Yiddish . The Swedish Sign Language also has a special status.^ [19] Swedish government does not base any statistics on ethnicity , there are no exact numbers on the ethnic background of migrants and their descendants in Sweden. This is not, however, to be confused with migrants' national backgrounds , which are recorded.^ 3 September 1967 .^ .eu domain is also used, as it is shared with other European Union member states.
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