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Geography
Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, Kattegat, and Skagerrak, between Finland and Norway
62 00 N, 15 00 E
Area: 
total: 450,295 sq km
country comparison to the world: 
55
land: 410,335 sq km
water: 39,960 sq km
slightly larger than California
total: 2,233 km
border countries: Finland 614 km, Norway 1,619 km
3,218 km
territorial sea: 12 nm (adjustments made to return a portion of straits to high seas)
exclusive economic zone: agreed boundaries or midlines
continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Current Weather
temperate in south with cold, cloudy winters and cool, partly cloudy summers; subarctic in north
mostly flat or gently rolling lowlands; mountains in west
lowest point: reclaimed bay of Lake Hammarsjon, near Kristianstad -2.4 m
highest point: Kebnekaise 2,111 m
iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, tungsten, uranium, arsenic, feldspar, timber, hydropower
arable land: 5.93%
permanent crops: 0.01%
other: 94.06% (2005)
1,150 sq km (2003)
179 cu km (2005)
total: 2.68 cu km/yr (37%/54%/9%)
per capita: 296 cu m/yr (2002)
ice floes in the surrounding waters, especially in the Gulf of Bothnia, can interfere with maritime traffic
acid rain damage to soils and lakes; pollution of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea
party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
strategic location along Danish Straits linking Baltic and North Seas
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