Country · SE

Sweden in other languages: Sverige, Ruotsi, Stockholm and 21 counties

Sweden is Sverige in Swedish, officially Konungariket Sverige, and carries the ISO 3166-1 codes SE, SWE and 752. Below are the country in 193 languages, Stockholm in 100, both names in the minority languages of Sweden, the 21 counties with their seats and the anthem.

Official languagesSwedish (svenska); minority languages Finnish, Meänkieli, Romani, Sami and Yiddish

Checked 5 November 2026

ISO 3166-1alpha-2 · alpha-3 · numeric

ratio 5:8

alpha-2: SE
alpha-3: SWE
numeric: 752

Sverige Swedish · Latin

Konungariket Sverige

English: SwedenKingdom of Sweden
Capital: StockholmStockholm

ISO 3166-1, checked 28 October 2026. Flag after the Wikimedia Commons drawing.

01 · Exonyms

Sweden (Sverige) in other languages: list of exonyms

Sweden in 193 languages and variants, grouped where the spelling is shared, with ISO 639-3 codes and romanisation
Languages	ISO 639-3	Name	Romanised
English, Welsh, West Frisian, Saterland Frisian, Low German	eng / cym / fry / stq / nds	Sweden	same as written
Corsican, Italian, Ladin, Romansh	cos / ita / lld / roh	Svezia	same as written
Basque, Novial, Romanian, Albanian	eus / nov / ron / sqi	Suedia	same as written
Asturian, Galician, Spanish	ast / glg / spa	Suecia	same as written
Danish, Norwegian, Swedish	dan / nor / swe	Sverige	same as written
French, Franco-Provençal, Jersey Norman French	fra / frp / jnf	Suède	same as written
Catalan, Occitan	cat / oci	Suècia	same as written
Czech, Slovak	ces / slk	Švédsko	same as written
German, Luxembourgish	deu / ltz	Schweden	same as written
Tornedal Finnish, Kven	fit / fkv	Ruotti	same as written
Croatian, Slovenian	hrv / slv	Švedska	same as written
Kinyarwanda, Kirundi	kin / run	Ubusuwedi	same as written
Afrikaans	afr	Swede	same as written
Aragonese	arg	Suezia	same as written
Aymara	aym	Swisiya	same as written
Azerbaijani	aze	İsveç / Исвеч	İsveç
Bambara	bam	Suwɛdi	same as written
Bosnian	bos	Švedska / Шведска / شوەدسقا	Švedska
Breton	bre	Sveden	same as written
Cornish	cor	Swedherwyk, Sweden	same as written
Crimean Tatar	crh	İsveçiya / Исвечия	İsveçiya
Kashubian	csb	Szwedzkô	same as written
Lower Sorbian	dsb	Šwedska, Šwedojska	same as written
Esperanto	epo	Svedujo, Svedio	same as written
Estonian	est	Rootsi	same as written
Faroese	fao	Svøríki	same as written
Finnish	fin	Ruotsi	same as written
North Frisian	frr	Sweeden	same as written
Friulian	fur	Svezie	same as written
Gagauz	gag	Şveţiya / Швеция	Şveţiya
Scottish Gaelic	gla	An t-Suain	same as written
Irish	gle	An tSualainn	same as written
Manx	glv	Yn Toolynn	same as written
Guarani	grn	Suesia	same as written
Haitian Creole	hat	Syèd	same as written
Hausa	hau	Sweeden, Sweden	same as written
Upper Sorbian	hsb	Šwedska	same as written
Hungarian	hun	Svédország	same as written
Igbo	ibo	Swiden	same as written
Interlingua	ina	Svedia, Sveda	same as written
Indonesian	ind	Swedia	same as written
Icelandic	isl	Svíþjóð	same as written
Javanese	jav	Swédia	same as written
Karakalpak	kaa	Shvetsiya / Швеция	Shvetsiya
Greenlandic	kal	Svenskit Nunaat, Sverige	same as written
Kurmanji Kurdish	kur	Swêd, Siwêd, Svêçistan	same as written
Latin	lat	Suecia, Suetia	same as written
Latvian	lav	Zviedrija	same as written
Limburgish	lim	Zwaede, Zwede	same as written
Lingala	lin	Swési	same as written
Lithuanian	lit	Švedija	same as written
Livonian	liv	Rūotšmō	same as written
Latgalian	ltg	Švedeja	same as written
Mauritius Creole	mfe	Laswed	same as written
Malagasy	mlg	Soeda	same as written
Maltese	mlt	Svezja	same as written
Moldovan	mol	Suedia / Суедия	Suedia
Maori	mri	Huitene	same as written
Malay	msa	Sweden / سويدن	Sweden
Nahuatl	nah	Suecatlān	same as written
Dutch	nld	Zweden	same as written
Old Norse	non	Svíþjóð, Svíaríki	same as written
Norman French	nrm	Suêde	same as written
Polish	pol	Szwecja	same as written
Portuguese	por	Suécia	same as written
Elfdalian	qer	Swerre	same as written
Quechua	que	Suysya	same as written
Kalderash Romani	rmy	Svedo / स्वेदो	Svedo
Aromanian	rup	Suidia	same as written
Sango	sag	Süîdi	same as written
Sicilian	scn	Svezzia	same as written
Scots	sco	Swaden	same as written
Slovio	slo	Sxvedia / Шведиа	Sxvedia
Southern Sami	sma	Sveerje	same as written
Northern Sami	sme	Ruoŧŧa	same as written
Samogitian	smg	Švedėjė	same as written
Lule Sami	smj	Svierik	same as written
Samoan	smo	Suetena	same as written
Somali	som	Iswidhan	same as written
Sardinian	srd	Isvétzia	same as written
Swahili	swa	Uswidi	same as written
Silesian	szl	Šwecyjo	same as written
Tetum	tet	Suésia	same as written
Tagalog	tgl	Suwesya	same as written
Tongan	ton	Sueteni	same as written
Tok Pisin	tpi	Swidan	same as written
Turkmen	tuk	Şwesiýa / Швеция	Şwesiýa
Turkish	tur	İsveç	same as written
Uzbek	uzb	Shvetsiya / Швеция / شۋېتسىيە	Shvetsiya
Veps	vep	Švecii, Ročinma	same as written
Vietnamese	vie	Thụy Điển	same as written
Volapük	vol	Svedän	same as written
Võro	vor	Roodsi	same as written
Walloon	wln	Suwede	same as written
Wolof	wol	Suweed	same as written
Zulu	zul	iSwidi	same as written
Zazaki	zza	İsweç	same as written
Gothic	got	𐍃𐍅𐌴𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐌹	Sweareiki
Old Church Slavonic	chu	Свє́ньско	Svénĭsko
Abaza, Altai, Bulgarian, Khakas, Komi, Karachay-Balkar, Kumyk, Lezgi, Russian, Yakut, Tuvan, Udmurt, Kalmyk	abq / alt / bul / kjh / kom / krc / kum / lez / rus / sah / tyv / udm / xal	Швеция	Švecija
Chuvash, Ossetian	chv / oss	Швеци	Šveci
Rusyn, Ukrainian	rue / ukr	Швеція	Švecija
Abkhaz	abk	Швециа	Švecia
Avar	ava	Швеция	Šwecija
Bashkir	bak	Швеция / Şveciya	Şveciya
Belarusian	bel	Швецыя / Šviecyja, Швэцыя / Švecyja	Šviecyja, Švecyja
Chechen	che	Швеци / Şveci	Şveci
Kazakh	kaz	Швеция / شۆەتسيا / Şvecïya	Şvecïya
Kabardian	kbd	Швециэ	Šveciă
Kyrgyz	kir	Швеция / شۋەتسىيا / Şvetsiya	Şvetsiya
Kurdish (Caucasus)	kmr	Суед / Sûêd, Сьԝеч / Siwêç, Швеси / Şvêsî	Sûêd, Siwêç, Şvêsî
Meadow Mari	mhr	Швеций	Švecij
Macedonian	mkd	Шведска	Švedska
Mongolian	mon	Швед	Šved
Serbian	srp	Шведска / Švedska	Švedska
Tatar	tat	Исвәҗ / İsväc / ئىسۋەج, Швеция / Şvetsiä / شۋېتسىيە	İsväc, Şvetsiä
Tajik	tgk	Шветсия / شویتسیه / Şvetsija	Şvetsija
Arabic	ara	السويد, أسوج	as-Suwīd, Asūǧ
South Azerbaijani	azb	ایسوئچ / İsveç	İsveç
Sorani Kurdish	ckb	سوێد / Swêd, سوید / Swîd	Swêd, Swîd
Persian	fas	سوئد / Sued, سود / Soved	Sued, Soved
Western Punjabi	pnb	سویڈن	Svīḋan
Dari	prs	سویدن	Svīden
Pashto	pus	سويډن, سويدن	Swīḋən, Swīdən
Uyghur	uig	شىۋېتسىيە / Shiwétsiye / Швеция	Shiwétsiye
Urdu	urd	سویڈن, سویڈین	Svīḋan, Svīḋēn
Dhivehi	div	ސްވިޑްން	Sviḋn
Syriac	syr	ܣܘܝܕ	Swīd
Hebrew	heb	שודיה / שוודיה, שבדיה	Švedyah, Šṿedyah
Ladino	lad	סואיסיה / Suesia	Suesia
Yiddish	yid	שװעדן	Švedn
Amharic	amh	ስዊድን	Swidən
Greek	ell	Σουηδία	Soyīdía
Armenian	hye	Շվեդիա	Švedia
Georgian, Mingrelian	kat / xmf	შვედეთი, შვეცია	Švedeṭi, Švec̣ia
Laz	lzz	ისვეჩი / İsveçi	İsveçi
Hindi	hin	स्वीडन, स्वीडेन	Svīḍan, Svīḍen
Bengali	ben	সুইডেন	Suiḍen
Gujarati	guj	સ્વિડન	Sviḍan
Odia	ori	ସ୍ବିଡେନ	Sbiḍen
Punjabi	pan	ਸਵੀਡਨ	Svīḍan
Sinhala	sin	ස්‍වීඩනය	Svīḍanaya
Kannada	kan	ಸ್ವೀಡನ್	Svīḍan
Malayalam	mal	സ്വീഡൻ	Svīḍan
Tamil	tam	சுவீடன், ஸ்வீடன்	Cuvīṭaṉ, Svīṭaṉ
Telugu	tel	స్వీడన్	Svīḍan
Chinese	zho	瑞典	Ruìdiǎn
Cantonese	yue	瑞典	Seuihdín
Japanese	jpn	スウェーデン	Suwēden
Korean	kor	스웨덴	Seuweden
Tibetan	bod	སི་ཝེ་དེན།, རུའེ་དེན།, རོས་ཏེན།, སུའེ་རྡན།	Si.we.den, Ru'e.den, Ros.ten, Su'e.rdan
Dzongkha	dzo	སུའི་ཌན།	Su'i.ḍan
Burmese	mya	ဆွီဒင်	Sʰwidĩ
Thai	tha	สวีเดน	Sawīdēn
Lao	lao	ຊຸຍແອດ	Suy'ǣt
Khmer	khm	ស៊ុយអែត	Suy'æt

Arabic has the common السويد and the older أسوج; Latin gives Suecia and Suetia.

02 · NamesU+00C5 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE

Sverige, Schweden, Ruotsi: the name and its neighbours

Swedish calls the country Sverige and the state Konungariket Sverige, the Kingdom of Sweden. Danish and Norwegian write the name exactly the same way, and Icelandic has Svíþjóð. Most other languages have a form close to it: German Schweden, Dutch Zweden, Russian Швеция (Švecija), Polish Szwecja, Latin and Spanish Suecia, and Hungarian Svédország, with ország, country.

Two neighbours use other words. Finnish says Ruotsi and Estonian Rootsi, and Northern Sami Ruoŧŧa follows them, while Southern Sami uses Sveerje. Latvian has its own form, Zviedrija. Arabic lists السويد (as-Suwīd) beside an older أسوج (Asūǧ).

Stockholm keeps its shape in many languages; Finnish calls it Tukholma, Southern Sami Stuehkie, Portuguese and Spanish Estocolmo and Italian Stoccolma.

03 · Stockholm

Stockholm in other languages: Tukholma, Holmia, Стокгольм

Stockholm in 100 languages and variants, grouped where the spelling is shared, with ISO 639-3 codes and romanisation
Languages	ISO 639-3	Name	Romanised
English, French, Swedish, German, Luxembourgish, Low German	eng / fra / swe / deu / ltz / nds	Stockholm	same as written
Aragonese, Galician, Portuguese, Spanish	arg / glg / por / spa	Estocolmo	same as written
Corsican, Italian, Sicilian	cos / ita / scn	Stoccolma	same as written
West Frisian, Kurmanji Kurdish, Zazaki	fry / kur / zza	Stokholm	same as written
Croatian, Slovak, Silesian	hrv / slk / szl	Štokholm	same as written
Asturian	ast	Estocolmu	same as written
Azerbaijani	aze	Stokholm / Стокһолм	Stokholm
Bosnian	bos	Štokholm / Штокхолм / شتۉقحۉلم	Štokholm
Catalan	cat	Estocolm	same as written
Czech	ces	Štockholm	same as written
Kashubian	csb	Sztokhòlm	same as written
Esperanto	epo	Stokholmo	same as written
Basque	eus	Estokolmo	same as written
Faroese	fao	Stokkhólm	same as written
Finnish	fin	Tukholma	same as written
Tornedal Finnish	fit	Stokholmi	same as written
Irish	gle	Stócólm	same as written
Haitian Creole	hat	Stokolm	same as written
Icelandic	isl	Stokkhólmur	same as written
Latin	lat	Holmia, Stockholmia	same as written
Latvian	lav	Stokholma	same as written
Lithuanian	lit	Stokholmas	same as written
Maltese	mlt	Stokkolma	same as written
Moldovan	mol	Stocholm / Стокхолм	Stocholm
Malay	msa	Stockholm / ستوكهولم	Stockholm
Occitan	oci	Estocòlme	same as written
Polish	pol	Sztokholm	same as written
Elfdalian	qer	Stokkol	same as written
Kalderash Romani	rmy	Stokholm / स्तोक्होल्म	Stokholm
Romanian	ron	Stocholm	same as written
Scots	sco	Stockhollom	same as written
Southern Sami	sma	Stuehkie	same as written
Northern Sami	sme	Stockholbma	same as written
Samogitian	smg	Stuokhuolms	same as written
Lule Sami	smj	Stockhoalmma	same as written
Albanian	sqi	Stockholmi	same as written
Tetum	tet	Estokolmu	same as written
Tagalog	tgl	Estokholmo, Estokolmo	same as written
Turkmen	tuk	Stokgolm / Стокгольм	Stokgolm
Uzbek	uzb	Stokgolm / Стокгольм / ستاكگالم	Stokgolm
Vietnamese	vie	Stốc-khôm	same as written
Võro	vor	Stokholḿ, Tokholḿ	same as written
Gothic	got	𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌺𐌷𐌿𐌻𐌼𐍃	Staukhulms
Old Church Slavonic	chu	Стоко́лмъ	Stokólmŭ
Mongolian, Russian	mon / rus	Стокгольм	Stokgol'm
Bashkir	bak	Стокгольм / Stokgolm	Stokgolm
Belarusian	bel	Стакгольм / Stakholm	Stakholm
Bulgarian	bul	Стокхолм	Stokȟolm
Kazakh, Kyrgyz	kaz / kir	Стокгольм / ستوكگولم / Stokgolm	Stokgolm
Yakut	sah	Стокһольм	Stokhol'm
Serbian	srp	Штокхолм / Štokholm, Стокхолм / Stokholm	Štokholm, Stokholm
Tatar	tat	Стокгольм / Stokholm / ستوكھولم	Stokholm
Tajik	tgk	Стокҳолм / ستاکهالم / Stokholm, Стокголм / ستاکگالم / Stokgolm	Stokholm, Stokgolm
Ukrainian	ukr	Стокгольм	Stokhol'm
Arabic	ara	ستوكهولم, ستوكهلم, إستوكهولم, إستوكهلم	Sutūkhūlm, Sutūkhulm, Istūkhūlm, Istūkhulm
South Azerbaijani	azb	ستوکهولم / Stokholm	Stokholm
Sorani Kurdish	ckb	ستۆکهۆڵم / Stokhoḻm, ستۆکهۆلم / Stokholm	Stokhoḻm, Stokholm
Persian	fas	استکهلم / استوکهلم / Estokholm	Estokholm
Western Punjabi	pnb	سٹاکہوم	Sṫākhom
Pashto	pus	ستاکهولم, سټاکهالم, ستکهوم	Stākhōlm, Sṫākhālm, Stakhōm
Uyghur	uig	ستوكھولم / Stokholm / Стокгольм	Stokholm
Urdu	urd	سٹاکہوم	Sṫākhōm
Syriac	syr	ܣܬܘܟܗܘܠܡ	Stōkhōlm
Hebrew	heb	שטוקהולם, סטוקהולם	Šṭōqhōlm, Sṭōqhōlm
Yiddish	yid	שטאָקהאָלם	Štokholm
Amharic	amh	ስቶኮልም, እስቶኮልም	Stokolm, Əstokolm
Greek	ell	Στοκχόλμη	Stokȟólmī
Armenian	hye	Ստոկհոլմ, Ստոքհոլմ	Stokholm, Stok̕holm
Georgian	kat	სტოკჰოლმი	Stokholmi
Hindi	hin	स्टाकहोम, स्टॉकहोम, स्टॉकहोल्म	Sṭākhom, Sṭŏkhom, Sṭŏkholm
Nepali	nep	स्टकहोम	Sṭakhom
Bengali	ben	স্টকহোম	Sṭôkhom
Punjabi	pan	ਸਟਾਕਹੋਮ	Sṭākhom
Kannada	kan	ಸ್ಟಾಕ್‌ಹೋಮ್	Sṭākhōm
Malayalam	mal	സ്റ്റോക്ക്‌ഹോം	Sṟṟōkkhōṃ
Tamil	tam	ஸ்டாக்ஹோம்	Sṭākhōm
Telugu	tel	స్టాక్హోమ్	Sṭākhōm
Chinese	zho	斯德哥爾摩/斯德哥尔摩	Sīdégē'ěrmó
Japanese	jpn	ストックホルム	Sutokkuhorumu
Korean	kor	스톡홀름, 스톡홀롬	Seutokholleum, Seutokhollom
Tibetan	bod	སི་ཏོག་ཧོ་ལིམ།, སི་ཏ་ཀ་ཨར་མོ།	Si.tog.ho.lim, Si.ta.ka.ar.mo
Burmese	mya	စတော့ဟုမ်း	Satɔ̀hon
Thai	tha	สตอกโฮล์ม	Satɔ̄khō[l]m
Khmer	khm	ស្តុកហម, ស្តុកខូល	Stukham, Stukkʰūl

Latin calls the city Holmia or Stockholmia; Serbian lists both Штокхолм and Стокхолм.

04 · Minority languages

The Kingdom of Sweden and Stockholm in the minority languages

Konungariket Sverige and Stockholm in the minority languages of Sweden
Language	Kingdom of Sweden	Stockholm	Romanised
Finnish	Ruotsin kuningaskunta	Tukholma	same as written
Meänkieli (Tornedal Finnish)	Ruottin kuninkaskunta	Stokholmi	same as written
Romani (Latin)	Ťagaripen Svedo	Stokholm	same as written
Romani (Devanagari)	थागारिपेन स्वेदो	स्तोक्होल्म	same as written
Northern Sami	Ruoŧa gonagasriika	Stockholbma	same as written
Lule Sami	Svieriga gånågisrijkka	Stockhoalmma	same as written
Southern Sami	Sveerjen gånkarijhke	Stuehkie	same as written
Yiddish	קעניגרײך פֿון שװעדן	שטאָקהאָלם	Kenigreyḫ fun Švedn; Štokholm

05 · Counties

The 21 counties of Sweden (län) and their seats

Sweden is divided into 21 counties, län. Each row gives the Swedish name, the English form and the seat of the county administration with the ISO 3166-2 code.

Sweden, ISO 3166-2:SE: 21 counties
ISO 3166-2	Swedish	English	Administrative centre
Counties län21
SE-K	Blekinge län	Blekinge County	KarlskronaKarlskrona
SE-W	Dalarnas län	Dalarna County	FalunFalun
SE-I	Gotlands län	Gotland County	VisbyVisby
SE-X	Gävleborgs län	Gävleborg County	GävleGävle
SE-N	Hallands län	Halland County	HalmstadHalmstad
SE-Z	Jämtlands län	Jämtland County	ÖstersundÖstersund
SE-F	Jönköpings län	Jönköping County	JönköpingJönköping
SE-H	Kalmar län	Kalmar County	KalmarKalmar
SE-G	Kronobergs län	Kronoberg County	VäxjöVäxjö
SE-BD	Norrbottens län	Norrbotten County	LuleåLuleå
SE-M	Skåne län	Skåne County	MalmöMalmö
SE-AB	Stockholms län	Stockholm County	StockholmStockholm
SE-D	Södermanlands län	Södermanland County	NyköpingNyköping
SE-C	Uppsala län	Uppsala County	UppsalaUppsala
SE-S	Värmlands län	Värmland County	KarlstadKarlstad
SE-AC	Västerbottens län	Västerbotten County	UmeåUmeå
SE-Y	Västernorrlands län	Västernorrland County	HärnösandHärnösand
SE-U	Västmanlands län	Västmanland County	VästeråsVästerås
SE-O	Västra Götalands län	Västra Götaland County	GöteborgGöteborg
SE-T	Örebro län	Örebro County	ÖrebroÖrebro
SE-E	Östergötlands län	Östergötland County	LinköpingLinköping

Codes: ISO 3166-2:SE, as tabulated in Wikipedia’s ISO 3166-2:SE, checked 28 October 2026; ISO shows the Swedish county number (länskod) in brackets for information, from SE-01 for Stockholm to SE-25 for Norrbotten, and has not changed the list since 2011. Names and seats: the 2015 edition of this list.

All 290 municipalities, with Finnish, Sami and Dalecarlian names

06 · Counties

Län and letter codes: the counties of Sweden

Every county name ends in län, and most put the name in the genitive: Stockholms län, Dalarnas län, Norrbottens län. ISO 3166-2 gives each county a letter code, from SE-AB for Stockholm to SE-BD for Norrbotten, and lists the Swedish county number beside it in brackets, so Stockholm is also 01 and Norrbotten 25. Five county names have no genitive s: Blekinge län, Kalmar län, Skåne län, Uppsala län and Örebro län.

Three counties have names in the minority languages too. Norrbotten is Norrbottenin lääni in Finnish and Norrbottena leatna in Northern Sami, and its seat Luleå is Luulaja and Julevu; Jämtland is Jïemhten lïene in Southern Sami, with Östersund as Staare.

07 · Anthem

Du gamla, du fria, the national anthem

Richard Dybeck’s song, used as the national anthem, in its two stanzas in Swedish.

Du gamla, Du fria, Du fjällhöga nord / Du tysta, Du glädjerika sköna! / Jag hälsar Dig, vänaste land uppå jord, / Din sol, Din himmel, Dina ängder gröna, / Din sol, Din himmel, Dina ängder gröna.
Du tronar på minnen från fornstora dar, / då ärat Ditt namn flög över jorden. / Jag vet att Du är och Du blir vad du var. / Ja, jag vill leva jag vill dö i Norden, / Ja, jag vill leva jag vill dö i Norden.

08 · Questions

Questions about the names of Sweden

What is Sweden called in Swedish?

Sverige; the official name is Konungariket Sverige, the Kingdom of Sweden.

Why is Sweden Ruotsi in Finnish?

Finnish, Estonian (Rootsi) and Northern Sami (Ruoŧŧa) use a name of their own that does not come from Sverige.

What is Stockholm called in Finnish?

Tukholma. Latin has Holmia, Southern Sami Stuehkie.