Svealand

Location Svealands in Sweden Historical provinces ( landskap ) in Svealand

Central Sweden according to NUTS : …  Stockholm (SE11 / 110) …  Östra Mellansverige  (SE12) …  Norra Mellansverige  (SE31)

Svealand , roughly central Sweden in terms of geography , is the middle of the three parts of Sweden ( landsdelar ) .

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Svealand includes the historic provinces of Dalarna , Västmanland , Uppland , Värmland , Närke and Södermanland . It used to include Gästrikland , which is now part of Norrland , and the Åland Islands , which are now part of the Republic of Finland .

The area has an area of ​​91,098 km² and a population of 3,610,400 (as of December 31, 2007).

Svealand used to be the name of the area where the Svear spreads around Lake Mälaren . The Swedish name of Sweden, Sverige , roughly means the kingdom of the Svea and refers to the Svealand region. The oldest Swedish name was probably Sväthiud and is based on the Icelandic Svithiod , the people who meant Svear .

In today's Sweden, the division into parts of the country is of marginal interest. It is mainly used in meteorology and in summary statistics . In the NUTS breakdown, the following Riksområdena (imperial areas) are used - somewhat more comprehensively - for the area of ​​central Sweden ( Mellansverige in Swedish ):

• Stockholm / Stockholm County  (SE11 / SE110)
• Östra Mellansverige (SE12 'East Central Sweden') with Uppsala  (SE311), Södermanlands  (SE122), Östergötlands  (SE123), Örebro  (SE124) and Västmanlands län  (SE125)
• Norra Mellansverige  (SE31 'North Central Sweden') with Värmlands  (SE311), Dalarnas  (SE312) and Gävleborgs län  (SE313)

literature

• Svealand . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 27 : Stockholm-Nynäs järnväg – Syrsor . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1918, Sp. 888 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Individual evidence

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