Uppland

Uppland
Historical province
Coat of arms
Country	Sweden
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.