Gotland

is the largest island in the Baltic Sea with a size of 2,994 km?. It is also the largest island belonging to Sweden. Inhabitants of the island number 57,381 (2002 figure), with about 22,000 living in the city Visby. The primary income sources are tourism and agriculture.

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The island constitutes its own province, or landskap, in Sweden. The province also includes the northern islands F?r?, the Karls? Islands and Gotska Sand?n.

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The Latinized name of Gotland, which may occasionally be encountered today, is Gotlandia.

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Island: An island or isle is any piece of land smaller than a continent and larger than a rock that is completely surrounded by water. Very small islands are called islets. Although seldom adhered to, it is also proper to call an emergent land feature on an atoll an islet, since an atoll is a type of islan...

Baltic Sea: The Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe, bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainlands of Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the ?resund, the Great Belt and the Little Belt. Kattegat then continues in the Skagerr...

Sweden: The Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: ') is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak Strait and the Kattegat Strait on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia on the east. Sweden has a low populatio...

Gotland related Images and Photos (experimental)

Close-Up of Gotland Sheep Ram's Horn Sweden

Poppies and Daisies Gotland Sweden

Symbolic Heart Cut in Wood Norrland Gotland Sweden

Detail of the Legend of Valhalla from the Isle of Gotland