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Sweden Map

The map below shows county boundaries from about 1810 to 1997.
Click on the map or the county list for resources for each county. Click on the column headings below to order the county list alphabetically.

County Color County Name County Code Blekinge K Gotland I Gävleborg  X Göteborg och Bohus O Halland N Jämtland Z Jönköping F Kalmar H Kopparberg W Kristianstad L Kronoberg G Malmöhus M Norrbotten BD Skaraborg R Stockholm B Stockholm city and county AB Södermanland D Uppsala C Värmland S Västerbotten AC Västernorrland Y Västmanland U Älvsborg P Örebro T Östergötland E

Counties

With the Constitution of 1634, each Swedish Province turned over its civil authority to a County administration (called Län in Swedish). Through the years some counties were added and others were dissolved. The above map represents the county structure as it was sometime around 1950. This also matches the county structure used for the Swedish Record Collection in FamilySearch. See History of Swedish Counties and Swedish County Letter Abbreviations for more information.

• Blekinge
• Dalarna
• Göteborg och Bohus
• Gotland
• Gävleborg
• Halland
• Jämtland
• Jönköping
• Kalmar
• Kopparberg
• Kristianstad
• Kronoberg
• Malmöhus
• Norrbotten
• Skåne: see Kristianstad and Malmöhus
• Skaraborg
• Stockholm
• Södermanland
• Uppsala
• Värmland
• Västerbotten
• Västernorrland
• Västmanland
• Västra Götaland: see Göteborg och Bohus, Skaraborg, and Älvsborg
• Älvsborg
• Örebro
• Östergötland

Provinces

It's not uncommon that immigrants referred to their origin in Sweden by the name of their province (landskap). For more information, see Sweden Jurisdictions.

Parishes

Sweden counties are comprised of a series of parishes. If the parish name is known, use the Parish List or Parish Pages (Alphabetical Order) to locate the parish wiki page.