Location: Europe
Capital City: Stockholm
Population: 9,300,000
Government: The executive head of Government is the Prime Minister and he is supported by his cabinet of ministers. They answer to the legislative assembly called the Riksdag. The monarch is no longer part of the government and remains only as its symbolic head.
Currency: Swedish Krona
Main Languages: Swedish
Main Religions: Lutheran Christian (but mostly non-practising) with a small minority of Jews, Muslims and Catholics.
Other Facts
Sweden’s main exports are timber, iron ore and hydro-electric power.
The most famous cultural export from Sweden is probably the band ABBA.
Swedish people have the longest life expectancy in Europe, the lowest gender employment rate gap in the world and spend the longest in tertiary education in Europe.
Sweden has the highest number of McDonald’s restaurants per capita for a European country (although that is still only about half the ratio in the US).
