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Wildlife of Sweden. Located in the Scandinavian Peninsula, Sweden is a mountainous country dominated by lakes and forests. Its habitats include mountain heath, montane forests, tundra, taiga, beech forests, rivers, lakes, bogs, brackish, marine coasts, and cultivated land. The climate of Sweden is mild for a country at this latitude, largely ...
List of superlative trees in Sweden. Oldest non-clonal pine, at least 747 years old. Formerly it was thought a pine in Muddus National Park was the oldest. Stoutest larch, 5.19 m. Stoutest and oldest juniper in Sweden, 2.8 m and about 600 years old. Tallest tree in Sweden, 49.5 m.
Animal husbandry came increasingly into focus later in the century. Selected foreign breeds were purchased and made available in breeding stations (1702–1864). All farms in Sweden were taxed based on their productive capacity, which caused a rise in manorial organisation. This was a social and economic system that allowed the nobility to ...
Forests of Sweden. Sweden is covered by 68% forest. [ 1] In southern Sweden, human interventions started to have a significant impact on broadleaved forests around 2000 years ago, where the first evidence of extensive agriculture has been found. [ 2] Recent studies describe a long-term process of borealization in south-central Sweden starting ...
About 20 km (12 mi) from central Stockholm are the Tyresta National Park and Nature Reserve. The area is characterised by a rift valley landscape which is typical for central Sweden but unique in an international perspective. The national park has an area of 19.7 km 2 (7.6 sq mi), and the surrounding nature reserve 27 km 2 (10 sq mi), making ...
Gamla stan ( Swedish: [ˈɡâmːla ˈstɑːn], "The Old Town"), until 1980 officially Staden mellan broarna ("The Town between the Bridges"), is the old town of Stockholm, Sweden. Gamla stan consists primarily of the island Stadsholmen. Officially, but not colloquially, Gamla stan includes the surrounding islets Riddarholmen, Helgeandsholmen ...
The Eurasian blackbird is the national bird of Sweden. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Sweden. The avifauna of Sweden included a total of 554 confirmed species as of June 2023, according to BirdLife Sveriges (BLS) with supplemental additions from Avibase. [1] Of them, one has been introduced by humans, one is extinct, and three ...
Originally, there were 265 station points. The World Heritage Site includes 34 points in ten countries (north to south: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine), four of which are in Sweden ( Jupukka hill, one of the Sweden's station points, pictured). [ 22] Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland.