NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SURVEY 11; SWEDEN; MILITARY GEOGRAPHY

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11 /GS /MG
Sweden
May 1973
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SURVEY
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SWEDEN
CONTENTS
Th1v General Survey ,supersedes the one dated Sep.
tember 1967, copies of which shmild he destroyed.
A. General 1
1. Topography 1
Surface configuration, drai uge network,
vegetation, state of the ground, and culture
features.
2. Climate 4
Precipitation, cloudiness, visibility, relative
humidity, temperatures, and thunderstorms.
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R. Military geographic regions
6
D. internal routes
10
Fffect of terrain on operations by conventional
Tabular description of terrain, roads and rail
ground forces, airmobile and airborne force, 11111-
roads, and conditions for offroad disix -rsal and
phibious forces, and irregular forces or the fol-
cross country movement along routes leading from
lowing regions;
la.,d and sea approaches to strategic areas and
1. Southt and Coastal Lowlands
6
between strategic arras.
2. Interior Highlands
7
E. Approaches
1.4
Description of houndnrivs with Norway and Fin-
C. Strategic areas
8
land.
Location, population, primary activities, key
1. Land
14
transportation elements, significant industries,
Conditions for movement across borders by
and refined petroleum products storage capacity
road and cross country.
for the following arras:
2. Sea
14
1. Stockholm Goteborg
8
Conditions for anaphibioos o!)crations.
South Coastal
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3. Air
16
3. Other important areas
9
Weather conditions and terrain in air al)-
proaches within 200 nnntical miles of borders.
FIGURES
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Fig. 1 Location and comparative areas
Fig. 6 Coast northwest of IT.Jsingborg
(map)
1
(Photo)
7
Fig. 2 Military geographic regions and
Fig;. 7 Stockholm Goteborg; strategic area
terrain map)
2
(trntp)
9
Fig. 8 Stockholm photo)
10
Fig 3 Plain Southeast of Halmstad photo)
3
Fig. 9 South coastal strategic area (reap)
10
Fig;. 4 Mountains north�,ac!st of Kiruna
Fig. 10 Strategic areas, internal routes, and
Photo)
3
approaches (map)
11
big. 11 Int(mial routes (Wblc)
12
Fig. 5 Precipitation, snowfall days, snow
Fig;. 12 Land approaches (table)
15
depth, relative humidity, thunder
Fig. 13 Amphibious landing areas (table)
16
storm days, cloudiness, and tern-
Fig. 14 Terrain and transportation
peratures map and graphs)
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map) follotcs
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A. General (U /OU)
Sweden, including the islands of Gotland and
Oland,' is ome of Ihc largest countries in I- :urope and
has ccn area of 1 73,000 square miles (aboul 10r:i larger
than the stale of California). More significant than
land area, however, is the shai)e of the eomitrv: it
extends north- south :Il ill( sl I,OOO riles' anel tuts :e
naxitnurn width of only 270 stiles (1-1-are 1.1
Soperintposed on the Uniled States, Sweden would
extend front Luke Ontario to the Grill' of Mexico
(I -figure I The estimated popula(ion of 8,133,000 is
slightly les: than the concb populatio ll of the
states of Minnesota and Wisconsin.
1. Topography
Sweden is pwdonlinand a land of l'orested hills and
plains (I igore 2) traversed by lrany wide streams and
'For diacritics on place names we list of twmv% inn till aprii of
the 'i'errt :i and 'I'rmisportation map, the trial) ilscif, awl nt;ips in
the text.
1)islance% arc in slalulc miles unless naali l niiics are
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FIGURE 1. location and comparative areas (U /OU)
dotted with thousmids o lakes and bogs. Plains
oc�c�up most of the sorthenr third of the country
(higlire 3) and extend northward along the (:till' of
Bothnia, a broad belt of kills interspersed with
scattered srnall plains constitutes nn-1 of the interior
of Sweden, and a relatively uarrw hell of rugged
nunrntaitts cxtcnds along part of the border with
Norway igtire .1). The low, rocky, indented shore is
fronted by nunwrorts isieh, islands, rocks, and shoals
and backed by level to rolling plaids. The plains are
interrupted in niany places b} rounded steep-sided
I-illocks and eskers (long, sinuous. gravel :cud salld
ridges). Most of the plains are less than 600 feet above
sea level: however, south of Vattern (lake) and in the
fur north near the l'itinish border there are areas
between 600 and 1,500 feel in elevation. 1 :xlensive
areas of smooth, level, cultivated plicins are restricted
to the extreme southern part of tits countrw and the
islands of Gotland and Oland. The hills are tnoslly low
and rotinded and generally separated by flat to rolling
areas. The mountains also have rornided suntrits.
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