Capital city: Stockholm
Language: Swedish.
Inhabitants: 9.074.055
Currency: Swedish krona
3 biggest cities: Gothenburg, Malmo, Uppsala.
Typical dish: lutfisk and smörgåsbord
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Type of governament:Unitary parliamentary democracy andconstitutional monarchy
King´s name: Carl XVI Gustaf.
3 artists (writers, painters, etc.): ABBA , Roxette, Europe.
3 touristic places:
- Gamla stan: the old medieval quarter, the Stockholm Cathedral Great Cathedraland the Royal Palace.
- Skansen, an open air museum (literally, "the stronghold") located on the island ofDjurgården near the center of Stockholm. There are old buildings from all parts of Sweden, and plays about life in the cities and towns from the sixteenth century.There is also a section on the Lapps, and a small natural park (with differentspecies of Nordic animals such as moose, bears, etc.). And an aquarium.
- Vasa Museum: Here you can see a warship of the seventeenth century (Wasa) with a curious history: it sank just finished building in 1628, 1,300 meters of the shipyard. The reason is simply that the boat was too heavy to navigate. He was rescued in 1961.
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