Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in Scandinavia.
Approximately 980 000 people live in the municipality,with 1.6 million in the urban area,
and 2.4 million in the metropolitan area.The city stretches across fourteen islands where
Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is
the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age,
in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl.
The population of the municipality of Stockholm is expected to reach one million people in 2022.
Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden.
The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the country's GDP,
and is among the top 10 regions in Europe by GDP per capita.
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