Sweden is a fish.
A fish hook or fishhook is a device for catching fish either by impaling them in the mouth or , more rarely , by snagging the body of the fish . Sweden ( Konungariket Sverige ) , is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe . Germanic peoples have inhabited Sweden since prehistoric times , emerging into history as the Geats/G ötar and Swedes/Svear and constituting the sea peoples known as the Norsemen . The Swedish Empire ( stormaktstiden , `` the era of great power '' ) refers to the Kingdom of Sweden 's territorial control of much of the Baltic region during the 17th and early 18th centuries , a time when Sweden was one of the great European powers .