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Country (long form)	Kingdom of Sweden
Capital	Stockholm
Total Area	173,732.07 sq mi 449,964.00 sq km (slightly larger than California)
Population	8,875,053 (July 2001 est.)
Estimated Population in 2050	8,384,747
Languages	Swedish note: small Lapp- and Finnish-speaking minorities
Literacy	99% total, N/A% male, N/A% female (1979 est.)
Religions	Lutheran 87%, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist
Life Expectancy	77.07 male, 82.5 female (2001 est.)
Government Type	constitutional monarchy
Currency	1 Swedish krona (SKr) = 100 oere
GDP (per capita)	$22,200 (2000 est.)
Industry	iron and steel, precision equipment (bearings, radio and telephone parts, armaments), wood pulp and paper products, processed foods, motor vehicles
Agriculture	grains, sugar beets, potatoes; meat, milk
Arable Land	7%
Natural Resources	zinc, iron ore, lead, copper, silver, timber, uranium, hydropower