Sweden
Sweden is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy with its capital in Stockholm. A member of the European Union since 1995 and NATO since 2024, it has a high‑income, export‑oriented economy and extensive welfare institutions. The country’s landscape ranges from Arctic mountains and forests in the north to lakes and archipelagos in the south, and its population was about 10.6 million in 2025.