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Drottningholm Palace, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Kebnekaise and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
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Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Sweden and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. 3 are on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
World Heritage
Royal palace in Stockholm, Sweden
A royal palace at Drottningholm, on Lovön island, Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. Begun in 1662, it was the royal court's usual summer home for much of the 18th century, and the Swedish royal family lives there today.
Photo: Pudelek, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Sweden's national academy of sciences
One of Sweden's royal academies, founded on 2 June 1739: an independent, non-governmental scientific body with a special duty to promote mathematics and the natural sciences and their influence in society, while encouraging the exchange of ideas between disciplines.
Photo: Hackspett, CC BY-SA 2.5
Sweden's highest mountain
Sweden's highest mountain; its massif, part of the Scandinavian range, has two main peaks.
Photo: Carl Månsson, CC BY 2.0
World Heritage
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Fagersta Municipality, Sweden
An ironworks at Ängelsberg, a village in Fagersta Municipality, Västmanland County, Sweden, built in 1681 by Per Larsson Gyllenhöök (1645–1706). Between 1700 and 1800 it became one of the most modern ironworks anywhere.
Photo: Jürgen Howaldt, CC BY-SA 2.0 de
Archaeological site on Björkö in Sweden
An important Viking Age trading centre on Björkö, in present-day Sweden, dealing in goods from Scandinavia and from many parts of Continental Europe and the Orient. Björkö lies in Lake Mälaren, in Ekerö municipality, 30 kilometers west of today's Stockholm.
Photo: Alex Peterson, CC BY-SA 3.0
Road and railway bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark
Also spelled Öresund Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge over the Øresund strait between Sweden and Denmark, carrying both railway and motorway. The second-longest bridge in Europe, it holds road and rail in one structure: the European route E20 and the Øresund Line.
Photo: Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0
World Heritage
Historic Swedish wireless telegraphy station
An early transatlantic longwave wireless telegraphy station near Varberg, Halland, in southern Sweden, built in 1922–1924 and preserved as a historic site.
Photo: Chrumps, CC BY-SA 4.0
Residential skyscraper in Malmö, Sweden
A neo-futurist residential skyscraper in Malmö, Sweden, built in 2005. It was the Nordic region's tallest building until Karlatornet in Gothenburg overtook it in September 2022.
Photo: Knuckles at Swedish Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5
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Official residence of the Swedish monarch
Also called the Royal Palace, the Swedish monarch's official residence and main palace, on Stadsholmen, in Gamla stan, in the capital, Stockholm.
Photo: Jorge Láscar from Melbourne, Australia, CC BY 2.0
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Church in Uppland, Sweden
A cathedral in the centre of Uppsala, Sweden, between the Fyris river and Uppsala University's University Hall. A church of the Church of Sweden, the Evangelical-Lutheran national church, it is the seat of the Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden's primate.
Photo: Kateryna Baiduzha, CC BY-SA 4.0
Formally the Kingdom of Sweden, a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe, with Norway to its west and north, Finland to its east, and a sea border with Denmark to its south. Covering 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), with 10.6 million people, it is the biggest and most populous Nordic country and the fifth-biggest in Europe.
Officially The Kingdom of Sweden. Known locally as Sverige.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Drottningholm Palace, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Kebnekaise and Engelsberg Ironworks and others. Drottningholm Palace, Engelsberg Ironworks and Grimeton Radio Station are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Sweden that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
3 of the 10 in this guide: Drottningholm Palace, Engelsberg Ironworks and Grimeton Radio Station. That is not the full count for Sweden, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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