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Senior Editor Bo Streiffert
Project and Picture Editor Guy Engström
Assistant Picture Editor Ebba Mörner
Main Contributors Ulf Johansson, Mona Neppenström, Kaj Sandell
Photographers Peter Hanneberg, Erik Svensson, Jeppe Wikström
Cartographer Stig Söderlind Summer-flowering cottongrass in the
mountains of Sylarna
Illustrators
Stephen Conlin, Gary Cross, Urban Frank, Claire Littlejohn, Jan Rojmar, John
Woodcock Contents
English Translation Kate Lambert, Stuart Tudball
How to Use this Guide 6
Editor of English Edition Jane Hutchings
Introducing
Printed and bound in China
Sweden
First published in the UK in 2005
by Dorling Kindersley Limited, Discovering Sweden 10
80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL
16 17 18 19 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Putting Sweden
on the Map 18
Reprinted with revisions 2008, 2011 (001), 2014, 2017
Copyright 2005, 2017 © Dorling Kindersley Limited, London A Portrait of Sweden 20
A Penguin Random House Company
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in Sweden Through
a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, the Year 32
mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior
written permission of the copyright owner. The History of Sweden 36
A CIP catalogue record is available from the British Library.
Stockholm
ISBN 978-0-2412-5357-1
Floors are referred to throughout in accordance Area by Area
with European usage; ie the “first floor” is the floor above ground level
Stockholm
at a Glance 52
Gamla Stan 54

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Erik XIV’s crown in the Treasury at
Front cover main image: A typical Swedish boathouse in the Stockholm archipelago Stockholm’s Royal Palace
Traditional colourful fishing huts and boathouses along the wooden pier at Smögen

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