A report on Götaland, Västergötland and Sweden

Summertime agricultural landscape around Flo, south of Vänern. These plains are part of the geographical Central Swedish lowland and the geological Sub-Cambrian peneplain.

Map of Götaland, the areas of the Geats, which politically merged with the Swedes to form Sweden. Note that Värmland, north of Dalsland and Västergötland, also was a part of Götaland originally, while the large island of Gotland was not. Expansions in dark gray outside the border, including Gotland.

A Vendel-era helmet, at the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities

Map indicating that the areas of the Geats originally included Värmland as well.

The Tjängvide image stone dating from 800 to 1099, example of Viking art

Kalmar Castle - View from the North-Eastern side

Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala), a site of religious and political importance in the early days of Sweden

Gothia, Sweden, in 1635 (yellow outline), bordering Danish Scanian lands to the south and southwest (red outline), and Norway to the west (green outline). Note the inclusion of Värmland.

Skog tapestry, made most probably during the late 13th century.

Map of Sweden's three historical lands, the former Swedish province Österland in Finland, and the former historical land of Denmark (Skåneland) in southern Sweden. In the map, the lands has their most recent borders.

Gustav I liberated Sweden from Christian II of Denmark, ending the Kalmar Union. He established the House of Vasa which ruled Sweden and Poland until the 17th century

Götaland with the Swedish acquisitions of 1645 and 1658 in darker green: Gotland, Blekinge, Halland, and Skåne from Denmark, and Bohuslän from Norway (then under Danish rule).

Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Breitenfeld in 1631.

The Swedish Empire between 1611 and 1815, with its absolute peak between 1658 and 1660.

The Battle of Poltava in 1709. In the following years, Russia and her allies occupied all Swedish dominions on the Baltic coast and even Finland.

Illustration of starvation in northern Sweden, Famine of 1867–1869

Swedish emigrants boarding ship in Gothenburg in 1905

A Swedish soldier during World War II. Sweden remained neutral during the conflict.

Tage Erlander (left), Prime Minister under the ruling Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1946 to 1969.

Sweden joined the European Union in 1995 and signed the Lisbon Treaty in 2007.

Second day of the Stockholm Husby riots. The picture shows three cars on fire in the Stockholm suburb of Husby, 20 May 2013

View of the Stora Sjöfallet National Park

Köppen climate classification types of Sweden using the 0°C isotherm

Köppen climate classification types of Sweden using the -3°C isotherm

Map of Sweden's five major vegetation zones

The current King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, and his consort, Queen Silvia

Rosenbad, in central Stockholm, has been the seat of the Government since 1981.

The Riksdag chamber, at the time of a vote, in 2009

The party leaders lined up before the start of the televised live debate on 12 September 2014.

Kingdoms of Svear (Sweonas) and Götar (Geats) in the 12th century, with modern borders in grey

The Riksdag, the Swedish Parliament in 2014

Bonde Palace in Stockholm, seat of the Supreme Court of Sweden

The EU parliament in Brussels. Sweden is a member state of the European Union.

Development aid measured in GNI in 2009. Source: OECD. As a percentage Sweden is the largest donor.

The Saab JAS 39 Gripen is an advanced Swedish multi-role fighter aircraft of the Swedish Air Force.

The Infantry fighting vehicle CV90, which is produced and used by Sweden

Gross regional product (GRP) per capita in thousands of kronor (2014)

A proportional representation of Sweden exports, 2019

Sweden is home to Volvo Cars, an automobile company with its headquarters in Gothenburg

Sweden is part of the Schengen Area and the EU single market.

Nordstan is one of the largest shopping malls in northern Europe

Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant, located south of Gothenburg

The Öresund Bridge between Malmö and Copenhagen in Denmark

Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and institutor of the Nobel Prize

Population density in the counties of Sweden.
people/km²

Distribution of speakers of the Swedish language

The Protestant Katarina Church in Stockholm

The second oldest mosque in Sweden is the Malmö Mosque, inaugurated in 1984

Historical development of life expectancy in Sweden

The Swedish band ABBA in April 1974, a few days after they won the Eurovision Song Contest

Headquarters of Sveriges Television in Stockholm

The writer and playwright August Strindberg

Cinnamon rolls originated in Sweden and Denmark.

Former World No. 1 tennis player Björn Borg

Västergötland, also known as West Gothland or the Latinized version Westrogothia in older literature, is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden (landskap in Swedish), situated in the southwest of Sweden.

- Västergötland

However, the term mainly referred to the population of modern Västergötland.

- Götaland

The modern state of Sweden started forming when some provinces of Götaland gradually became more and more politically intertwined with those of Svealand.

- Götaland

The Swedish name Sverige (a compound of the words Svea and rike, with lenition of the consonant [k], first recorded in the cognate Swēorice in Beowulf) literally means "realm of the Swedes", excluding the Geats in Götaland.

- Sweden

The province of Västergötland represents the heartland of Götaland, once an independent petty kingdom with a long line of Geatish kings.

- Västergötland

Götaland in this sense mainly includes the provinces of Östergötland (East Gothia) and Västergötland (West Gothia).

- Sweden

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Småland

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An image from a canyon in the forested Småland.

Traditional Windsor chairs are manufactured in great numbers in Småland.

Ingatorp Old Church, Småland, Sweden, ca. 1895

Farmhouses in Småland are typically red with white corners.

The small lands of Småland. The black and red spots indicate runestones. The red spots indicate runestones telling of long voyages.

Småland is a historical province (landskap) in southern Sweden.

Småland borders Blekinge, Scania, Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and the island Öland in the Baltic Sea.

This may in turn be separated in two main branches, with the northern related to the Götaland dialects and the southern to the Scanian dialects.

Halland

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The peace stone in Brömsebro is not a runestone even if it looks like one. The stone was made in 1915 to commemorate the peace between Denmark and Sweden and the text is written with Latin letters. The text on the stone says "Memory of the peace in Brömsebro – Gaspard Coignet de La Thuilerie – Axel Oxenstierna – Corfitz Ulfeldt". The three named persons were the negotiators. Thuilerie was an ambassador from France, Oxenstierna represented Sweden and Ulfeldt represented Denmark.

Halland is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (landskap), on the western coast of Götaland, southern Sweden.

It borders Västergötland, Småland, Scania and the sea of Kattegat.

Dalsland

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View from the Kroppefjäll tableland, wherein an enclosed area is designated as nature reserve.

Dalsland is a Swedish traditional province, or landskap, situated in Götaland in southern Sweden.

Lying to the west of Lake Vänern, it is bordered by Värmland to the north, Västergötland to the southeast, Bohuslän to the west, and Norway to the northwest.

Östergötland

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Former Industrial landscape in Norrköping

Övralid Manor, with view over Lake Vättern

Tidersrum Church, the oldest wooden church in Sweden

Östergötland (English exonym: East Gothland) is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (landskap in Swedish) in the south of Sweden.

It borders Småland, Västergötland, Närke, Södermanland and the Baltic Sea.

The accent Östgötska can be distinguished from Standard Swedish just by accent and pronunciation of vowels and sje- and the- sounds, which makes Östgöta accent an eastern variety of the Götaland accent.

Vänern

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Vänern (, also , ) is the largest lake in Sweden, the largest lake in the European Union and the third-largest lake of all Europe after Ladoga and Onega in Russia.

It is located in the provinces of Västergötland, Dalsland, and Värmland in the southwest of the country.

Geographically, it is situated on the border between the Swedish regions of Götaland and Svealand, divided between several Swedish provinces: The western body of water is known as the Dalbosjön, with its main part belonging to Dalsland; the eastern body is known as Värmlandsjön, its northern part belonging to Värmland and the southern to Västergötland.