Sweden (Swedish: Sverige [ˈsvæ̌rjɛ] ()), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket

. The city is one of Germany's 16 federal states. It is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg

name from the region called Prussia, it was based in the Margraviate of Brandenburg, where its capital was Berlin.

Pomerania and Brandenburg to the west, and the Baltic Sea to the north. Its capital and largest city

, between Sweden to the west, Russia to the east, Estonia to the south, and north-eastern Norway

Brandenburg (, also US: , German: [ˈbʁandn̩bʊʁk] (); Low German: Brannenborg; Lower Sorbian

, Denmark lies southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and is bordered to the south by Germany

to the north by the Gulf of Finland with Finland on the other side, to the west by the Baltic Sea with Sweden

Poland and Lusatia. Until 1945, it mainly formed the Neumark within the Prussian Province of Brandenburg.

of Sweden. 972,647 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.6 million in the urban area