Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city vicinity in the Nordic international locations;965,232 human beings stay in the municipality, about 1.6 million inside the city area, and 2.4 million in the metropolitan location.The metropolis stretches across fourteen islands in which Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the metropolis to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The location has been settled because the Stone Age, in the sixth millennium BC, and turned into based as a town in 1252 with the aid of Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is likewise the county seat of Stockholm County. Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and financial centre of Sweden.

The Stockholm location alone money owed for over a third of the country's GDP and is most of the top 10 regions in Europe with the aid of GDP consistent with capita. It is an critical global city, and the main centre for corporate headquarters inside the Nordic place. The metropolis is home to some of Europe's top rating universities, along with the Stockholm School of Economics, Karolinska Institute and Royal Institute of Technology It hosts the annual Nobel Prize ceremonies and dinner party on the Stockholm Concert Hall and Stockholm City Hall.