Sweden

Quick facts

How to spot Sweden from satellite imagery

Sweden is the largest country in Scandinavia at 450,000 square kilometres — bigger than California, smaller than Texas. The country stretches roughly 1,570 kilometres from the Baltic Sea coast of Skåne in the south to the Arctic plateau of Norrbotten in the north, with elevations ranging from sea level along the long coastlines to over 2,000 metres in the Scandinavian mountains along the Norwegian border. Roughly 70 percent of the country is forest, around 9 percent is freshwater, and the remainder is mostly agriculture in the south, tundra and mountains in the north.

For geography games, Sweden is one of the more common northern European countries to appear, and the distinctive combination of forests, lakes, and coastline locks it in quickly once you know the cues. This guide walks through the regional aerial signatures.