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Sweden is a long country: Malmö and Kiruna are as far apart as Paris and Warsaw, so knowing you are in Sweden tells you very little about where. The county, or län, is the unit that fixes it. Each one has its own governor, its own regional council running healthcare and public transport, and, for the older ones, a letter on the number plate that was once its own. This page is the whole list, grouped the way Swedes group them.
A län is the tier between the state and the municipality. Each is run by a länsstyrelse, the state's regional arm headed by a governor, and by a directly elected region that owns the hospitals and the buses. Gotland is the odd one out: its council is the municipality, so island and county are the same shape and the same body.
Above the counties are the three lands, which have no government at all and are older than all of them. Norrland is more than half of Sweden's area and holds about one person in eight. Svealand is the middle, around Lake Mälaren and the capital. Götaland is the south, including the two big islands Öland and Gotland and the plains of Skåne. Learn the three and you have placed a county to within a few hundred kilometres before you have read its name.
Gotland sits alone in the Baltic, 90 kilometres off the mainland, and is the only county that is a single municipality. It is also the easiest click on the map: nothing else in the game is detached from the mainland by open sea.
Norrbotten is about a quarter of Sweden by area, with Kiruna the largest municipality in the country inside it. It borders Norway to the west and Finland along the Torne river to the east, and it is the top of the map.
Västra Götaland was formed in 1998 from Göteborg and Bohus, Älvsborg and Skaraborg counties, which is why it is the most populous county outside the capital and holds 49 of the 290 municipalities, and why older maps show three where this one shows one.
21. That has been the count since 1997, when Skåne was formed from Malmöhus and Kristianstad counties, and Västra Götaland from three more the year after.
A län (plural: län), and every name carries the word: Stockholms län, Skåne län. English usually writes the county's name alone, which is what this game asks for.
The three lands, the traditional parts of the country. They are not administrative divisions, but they are how Swedes describe where something is, and they are the groups this game is cut by.
Stockholm County, one of the smallest by area and by far the most populous. The city of Stockholm is one of its 26 municipalities.
No. The 25 historical provinces (landskap), such as Dalarna or Lappland, are cultural and carry no government. Counties often follow them but not exactly: Lappland is split between Norrbotten and Västerbotten, and Småland is spread over four.
The tier below this one is Sweden Municipalities, and the 21 answers here are the 21 groups there, so it is the place to go once the counties come easily. For another country at this level, see Germany States and Netherlands Provinces.
