The capital and largest city in Sweden. Inner Stockholm has a population of around 700,000, and the city with suburbs has a population of roughle 1.8 million. It is pronounced stok'hôlm.
Geography?
What first strikes the visitor to Stockholm is that there is water everywhere. The city's core is situated on a number of islands in an archipelago where the lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea.
The earliest mention of Stockholm in in writing dates from 1252. At the time it was an important trade central for the iron trade from the mines in Bergslagen?, since it was here that foregin ships made their purchases.
Stockholm is the site of government? and parliament of Sweden.
Stockholm is the largest university city in Sweden, and is famous because of the Nobel Prize which is given here each year.
Stockholm has relatively recently begun a drive to profile itself as a tourist city. This has been fairly successful, although the number of hotel nights remain somewhat underdimensioned.
The cultural life in Stockholm is quite active, with dozens of museum?s and theaters. Sporting events are also popular with football and ice hockey being the most popular sports.
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