Uppland | |
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Country | ![]() |
Land | Svealand |
Counties | Uppsala County Stockholm County |
Area | |
• Total | 12,813 km2 (4,947 sq mi) |
Population (31 December 2023)[1] | |
• Total | 1,757,151 |
• Density | 140/km2 (360/sq mi) |
Ethnicity | |
• Languages | Uppländska Stockholmska |
Culture | |
• Flower | Leper lily |
• Animal | White-tailed eagle |
• Bird | — |
• Fish | Aspius |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Uppland (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɵ̌pːland] ⓘ) is a historical province or landskap on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital. It borders Södermanland, Västmanland and Gästrikland. It is also bounded by lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. On the small uninhabited island of Märket in the Baltic, Uppland has a very short and unusually shaped land border with Åland, an autonomous province of Finland.
The name literally means up land, a name which is commonly encountered in especially older English literature as Upland. Its Latinised form, which is occasionally used, is Uplandia.
Uppland is often called called the province of "castles, ancient remains and runestones" and is famous for having the highest concentration of runestones in the world, with as many as 1,196 inscriptions in stone left by the Vikings. Many of its castles and places of historical interest include Drottningholm Palace, Skokloster Castle, Salsta Castle, the medieval Uppsala Cathedral, where many royals are buried, and Uppsala Castle.
Famous people from the region include Ingmar Bergman, St. Bridget of Sweden, Carl Linnaeus, Anders Celsius and Gustav Vasa.
It has Sweden's oldest town, Sigtuna, thought to have been established around AD 980 and Uppsala University, Sweden's oldest university.