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conventional long form: Kingdom
of Sweden
conventional short form: Sweden
local long form: Konungariket Sverige
local short form: Sverige
Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic
Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, Kattegat, and Skagerrak, between Finland and
Norway
temperate in south with cold, cloudy
winters and cool, partly cloudy summers; subarctic in north
total: 449,964 sq km
land: 410,934 sq km
water: 39,030 sq km
8,986,400 (July 2004 est.)
Swedish
note: small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities
iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, gold,
silver, tungsten, uranium, arsenic, feldspar, timber, hydropower
iron and steel, precision equipment
(bearings, radio and telephone parts, armaments), wood pulp and
paper products, processed foods, motor vehicles
machinery 35%, motor vehicles, paper
products, pulp and wood, iron and steel products, chemicals
machinery, petroleum and petroleum
products, chemicals, motor vehicles, iron and steel; foodstuffs,
clothing
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