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Sweden

General Presentation
Sweden, in long form the Kingdom of Sweden, is a country of the north of Europe which belongs to Scandinavia. Its capital is Stockholm. The spoken language is Swedish.
It counts about 9 million inhabitants (9,074,055 for the official estimation done in 2010), and with its 450,000 square km, it is the third largest country of Western Europe. Sweden has weak densities of population (about 22 inhabitants per square km), except in the metropolitan zones. The rate of urbanization is 85% although the cities occupy only 1.3% of the territory.
The safeguard of the environment and the problem of renewable energies are generally the priorities of the politicians, as well as most of the people.
According to the index of democracy published by The Economist, Sweden is in 2008 the most democratic country in the world with an index of 9.88/10.

History
Sweden is partly resulting from the Viking culture which spread at 9th and 10th centuries in Scandinavia.
The movement of Christianization, at the 12th century, facilitated the consolidation of a Swedish State centered on the edges of the Baltic, with Stockholm as capital.
In 1397, the three States of Norway, Denmark and Sweden were linked under only one monarch within the framework of the Union of Kalmar. Sweden ends up leaving the Union in 1521, when Gustav Vasa restores the independence of the Swedish crown.
The reign of Gustav Vasa was characterized by the adoption of the Protestant Reform and a new consolidation of the State. Gustav Vasa, king builder and peaceful, is often regarded as the father of the Swedish nation.
The modern history of Sweden is remarkably peaceful, the last war known by the country having been a campaign carried out against Norway in 1814, at the conclusion which a personal union of the two crowns was established, with Swedish domination. It was dissolved in 1905 when Norway declared its independence but without