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- <text id=94CT1355><title>Sweden—Geography</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Sweden<nl>Geography</hdr><body>
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- <item><hi format=bold>Location:</hi> Nordic State, Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Norway and Finland
- <item><hi format=bold>Area:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total area:</hi> 449,964 sq km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>land area:</hi> 410,928 sq km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>comparative area:</hi> slightly smaller than California
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- <item><hi format=bold>Land boundaries:</hi> total 2,205 km, Finland 586 km, Norway 1,619 km
- <item><hi format=bold>Coastline:</hi> 3,218 km
- <item><hi format=bold>Maritime claims:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>continental shelf:</hi> 200-m depth or to depth of exploitation
- <item>• <hi format=ital>exclusive fishing zone:</hi> 200 nm
- <item>• <hi format=ital>territorial sea:</hi> 12 nm
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- <item><hi format=bold>International disputes:</hi> none
- <item><hi format=bold>Climate:</hi> temperate in south with cold, cloudy winters and cool, partly cloudy summers; subarctic in north
- <item><hi format=bold>Terrain:</hi> mostly flat or gently rolling lowlands; mountains in west
- <item><hi format=bold>Natural resources:</hi> zinc, iron ore, lead, copper, silver, timber, uranium, hydropower potential
- <item><hi format=bold>Land use:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>arable land:</hi> 7%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>permanent crops:</hi> 0%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>meadows and pastures:</hi> 2%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>forest and woodland:</hi> 64%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>other:</hi> 27%
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- <item><hi format=bold>Irrigated land:</hi> 1,120 sq km (1989 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Environment:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>current issues:</hi> acid rain damaging soils and lakes; pollution of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea
- <item>• <hi format=ital>natural hazards:</hi> ice floes in the surrounding waters, especially in the Gulf of Bothnia, can interfere with navigation
- <item>• <hi format=ital>international agreements:</hi> party to—Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber, Wetlands, Whaling; signed, but not ratified—Law of the Sea
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- <item><hi format=bold>Note:</hi> strategic location along Danish Straits linking Baltic and North Seas
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