Sweden is a country.
Sweden ( Konungariket Sverige ) , is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe . At 450295 km2 , Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area , with a total population of 10.0 million . A unitary state is a state governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions ( sub-national units ) exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to delegate .