Which country contains the Stockholm Archipelago?

Which country contains the Stockholm Archipelago? Sweden. The Stockholm Archipelago is a vast chain of islands, islets, and skerries along Sweden’s Baltic Sea coast, immediately east of Stockholm.

The archipelago stretches roughly from Arholma in the north to Landsort in the south. Depending on how tiny rocks and skerries are counted, it contains more than 24,000 islands and islets. Stockholm’s ferry network connects the capital with populated islands such as Vaxholm, Grinda, Möja, Utö, and Sandhamn.

Its landscape was shaped by glacial erosion and is still changing through post-glacial rebound: the land rises by about three millimeters each year. The water is brackish, becoming saltier toward the outer islands. A common mix-up is with Finland’s Archipelago Sea, which is larger in the Baltic region; the Stockholm Archipelago itself lies in Sweden and is administered mainly through Stockholm County.