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Sweden landmarks quiz: guess where 8 photos were taken

8 places in Sweden, each with a photo, a fact and a spot on the map. Play five of them here, then study the rest below.

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Quick round · 5 photos

Five places from the 8 below, in a random order. Your pin against the real spot, five times.

Where they are

8 on the map
Hover or tap a dot to name the place.

All 8 places

by id
Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Sweden
Gamla Stan, Stockholmeasy

Stockholm's medieval old town on its own island.

Photo: Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fårö, Sweden
Fårömedium

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
Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland, Sweden
Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsinglandhard

Red timber farmhouses with lavishly painted rooms, built by wealthy 19th-century farmers.

Photo: Catasa / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kebnekaise, Sweden
Kebnekaisemedium

Sweden's highest mountain, whose glacier summit shrinks a little every year.

Photo: Carl Månsson / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Luleå, Sweden
Luleåhard

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
Storsjön, Sweden
Storsjönhard

Sweden's fifth largest lake, said to hide its own lake monster.

Photo: Pontus Carlweitz / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kalmar Castle, Sweden
Kalmar Castlehard

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
Sarek National Park, Sweden
Sarek National Parkhard

Sweden's wildest national park, with no trails or huts, only glaciers and valleys.

Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

How to place them

Sweden's 8 places run 1,250 km from Kebnekaise in the north down to Kalmar Castle.

This is a tough set: five of the 8 are rated hard. Gamla Stan, Stockholm, rated easy, balances the ledger. Kalmar Castle is a Renaissance castle with copper-green turrets by the Baltic, once Sweden's key to the south.

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Questions & answers

How many places in Sweden are in the game?

8, from Kebnekaise in the north to Kalmar Castle in the south. A round here plays five of them.

Which photo from Sweden is the hardest?

Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland, Luleå and Storsjön are rated hard, with two more. On hard photos the score halves every 451 km beyond the accuracy radius.

Which one is easiest to score full points on?

Fårö: its accuracy radius is 60 km, so any pin inside that circle scores 5,000.

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