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Stockholm
Stockholm
(;
) is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the
Nordic region
, with 914,909 people living in the
municipality
, approximately 1.4 million in the
urban area
, and 2.2 million in the
metropolitan area
. The city is spread across 14
islands
on the coast in the southeast of Sweden at the mouth of
Lake Mälaren
, by the
Stockholm archipelago
and the
Baltic Sea
. The area has been settled since the
Stone Age
, in the
6th millennium BC
, and was founded as a city in 1252 by
Birger Jarl
. It is also the capital of
Stockholm County
.
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