Yacht Racing in Front of th Old Town and the Royal Palace, downtown Stockholm

Is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Founded no later than circa 1250, possibly as early as 1187, Stockholm has long been one of Sweden's cultural, media, political, and economic centres. Its strategic location on 14 islands on the south-central east coast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, by the Stockholm archipelago, has been historically important.