Central Swedish depression

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The central Swedish depression is one of the three major landscapes of Sweden , along with the sparsely populated Norrland in the north and the Götaland mountainous region . It is a flat but rugged landscape with large plains , eyries , table mountains , fjords and a number of lakes (including Sweden's four largest lakes, Vänern , Vättern , Mälaren and Hjälmaren ).

"Central Swedish depression" is the generic term for the regions of Uppland and Sörmland and the north of Östergötland and Västergötland . Due to its extremely fertile soil, it is the agriculturally used heartland of Sweden. In addition to the capital Stockholm, there are other large cities such as Uppsala , Linköping , Västerås , Örebro , Norrköping , Jönköping , Borås and Gothenburg .

While the Central Swedish Depression still belongs to the cool, temperate sub-oceanic climate of Central Europe, the cold temperate , continental boreal climate with extensive coniferous forests joins to the north of it .

When the two to three kilometers thick Scandinavian ice layer began to melt at the end of the Vistula Ice Age around 14,000 years ago, the Baltic Ice Reservoir , the forerunner of today's Baltic Sea , poured over the central Swedish depression into the Atlantic Ocean .