Photo location game · Europe
Sweden landmarks quiz: guess where 8 photos were taken
8 places in Sweden, each with a photo, a short fact and its spot on the map. Play five of them here, then look through the rest below.
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Five places from the 8 below, in random order. Each one scores by the distance from your pin to the real spot.
Tap the map where you think this is
Where they are
8 on the mapAll 8 places
Stockholm's medieval old town on its own island.
Photo: Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Baltic island of sea stacks and stone beaches where Ingmar Bergman lived and filmed.
Photo: allen watkin from London, UK / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Red timber farmhouses with lavishly painted rooms, built by wealthy 19th-century farmers.
Photo: Catasa / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sweden's highest mountain, whose glacier summit shrinks a little every year.
Photo: Carl Månsson / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Swedish city near the Arctic Circle, with a church town and midnight sun.
Photo: Andreas Harnemo / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sweden's fifth largest lake, said to hide its own lake monster.
Photo: Pontus Carlweitz / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Renaissance castle with copper-green turrets by the Baltic, once Sweden's key to the south.
Photo: W. Bulach / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sweden's wildest national park, with no trails or huts, only glaciers and valleys.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
It is 1,250 km from Kebnekaise, the northernmost place here, to Kalmar Castle, the southernmost.
This is a hard set: five of the eight photos are rated hard. Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland, Luleå, Storsjön, Kalmar Castle and Sarek National Park are rated hard. The easy one is Gamla Stan, Stockholm.
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How many places in Sweden are in the game?
8, from Kebnekaise in the north to Kalmar Castle in the south. A round on this page plays five of them.
What is the hardest photo from Sweden?
Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland, Luleå, Storsjön, Kalmar Castle and Sarek National Park are rated hard. A pin 693 km outside the radius leaves 2,500 of the 5,000 points.
Which photo is the easiest to score full points on?
Fårö, Storsjön and Sarek National Park. They share the widest radius on this page, 60 km, and any pin inside it scores the full 5,000.