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Lands of Sweden
Lands of Sweden are the three unofficial regions into which the Kingdom of Sweden is divided: Svealand, the central region, named after the historic Sweden proper and the smallest of the three regions; Norrland (literally "Northern lands"), the northern region, which is the largest of the three regions, covering 60 percent of the total Swedish territory; and Götaland the southern, most densely populated region, based on the name given the inhabitants of ancient Gothia by the classical Greek geographer Ptolemy in 150 AD, which today also includes one of the Lands of Denmark, aquired by Sweden in the 17th century.
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