STATISTICAL ACCOUNT. 3 



According to Agardth the total area of Sweden is 3868 

 Swedish square miles; although its actual surface,, on 

 account of its mountains and valleys, is much larger. Of 

 this about 498 Swedish square miles, or one-eighth part, is 

 taken up by lakes, etc. (in Norway the proportion of lakes 

 is as one-twentieth). 



Swedish 

 square miles. 



Lakes 498 



Meadow and cultivated land . 247 



Fells and barren plains . . 1500 



Forests 1623 



3868 



According to Hahr's chart, the whole area of Sweden, 

 including lakes, forests, etc., but exclusive of islands, is now 

 80,825,056 tunnland or Swedish acres. 



In 1656, under Charles Grustavus, the whole Swedish 

 territory extended over 12,470 Swedish square miles; and 

 in 1856 (200 years after), under Oscar I., it was reduced to 

 about one-half, or 6625 Swedish square miles. 



The surface of Sweden is not nearly so mountainous as 

 that of Norway. The highest mountain in Sweden is Suli- 

 telma, in Lulea Lapland, about 6342 feet above the level of 

 the sea. The highest in Norway is Skagastolstend, about 

 8670 feet high. More than one-half of Norway lies higher 

 than 2000 feet above the sea, and one- thirty- eighth of the 

 whole land is covered with perpetual snow. While on the 

 contrary in Sweden only about one-twelfth part of the whole 

 country lies at so great an elevation, and about one-third of 

 the whole land lies less than 300 feet above the sea, and 

 south of the Dal river there is not a mountain 2000 feet 

 high. 



From Falsterbo Reef, the most southerly point of 

 Sweden, to the North Cape (which, however, lies in Norway) 

 it is about 1200 English miles as the crow flies, and the mean 

 breadth of Sweden is 200. It is divided on the east from 

 Russian Finland by the large Tornea, Munio, and Tana 



