Population

Number of inhabitants: 8.85 million
90% Swedish
3% Finnish
0.15% Samis
Capital: Stockholm
Principal university cities: Stockholm, Uppsala, Lund, Umea, Linköping, Göteborg
Official language: Swedish
Student population: 285,000
Foreign students: 2,500
Country of origin of the foreign students: mainly Scandinavians (Finnish, Norwegian, Danes, Islandics)