Page 14 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - Stockholm

12  INTRODUCING ST OCKHOLM

Putting Stockholm on the Map
Pori
Sweden is Europe’s fourth largest country, covering 486,661 sq km
(187,900 sq miles). Its southern-most point is on the same latitude as FINLAND
Edinburgh; its northern extremity is 280 km (174 miles) north of the Gulf of Bothnia
Arctic Circle. Sweden borders Norway in the west and Finland in the east. Rauma
Since 2000 it has been connected to Denmark in the south via a bridge
over the Öresund strait. The capital, Stockholm, is in the south-east. It
has just under one million inhabitants. The city is built on islands, which Turku/åbo
separate the Baltic Sea from Lake Mälaren (see pp42–3). Gävle
Eckerö Åland
NORWAY Torsby Grisslehamn Mariehamn
Oslo SWEDEN
Drammen See inset map below Kapellskär Helsinki,
St Petersburg,
Tallinn
Karlstad
Moss Örebro
Sandefjord
Fredrikstad STOCKHOLM
Hiiumaa Lake
Island
Larvik Strömstad Nynäshamn ESTONIA Peisi
Vänern Mariestad
Mellerud Saaremaa Parnu
Norrköping Island Tartu
Linköping
Skagerrak Vättern
Trollhättan
Valmiera
Kristiansand, Cape Kolka
Newcastle Smiltene
Borås Västervik Visby
Gothenburg Jönköping
Ventspils
Hirtshals Sigulda
Gotland
Riga
Frederikshavn Oskarshamn
LA TVIA Jelgavas
Aalborg Varberg
Växjö
Ljungby Öland
Liepāja
Halmstad Kalmar Joniškis
LITHUANIA
Grenå
Karlskrona Baltic Sea Telšiai Šiauliai Panevėžys
Aarhus Helsingborg Palanga
DENMARK Helsingör Klaipėda
Copenhagen
Simrishamn
Malmö
Odense Ystad
Trelleborg
Bornholm (RUSSIA)
Rönne
Kaliningrad
Rödby Gdynia
Gedser
Kiel Sassnitz Gdansk
Slupsk Elblag
Puttgarden Stralsund
Greifswald Koszalin
Rostock
Travemünde
GERMANY Swinoujscie POLAND Olsztynek
Hamburg Nowogard
For map symbols see back flap
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Eyewitness Travel LAYERS PRINTED:
Orientations template “UK” LAYER
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Date 6th November 2012
Size 125mm x 217mm