Vangria

The Republic of Vangria (Swedish: Republiken av Vangård), commonly known as Vangria or Vangard or is a souvreign state in Northern Europe. Its capital city is Stockholm. The country is composed of x provinces. Its official languages are Swedish and Norvegian, while Finnish and Inuktitut are recognized regional languages, mostly spoken in Vangrian Finnmark and in Greenland.
Vangria borders Finland to the north, Skåne to the south, and Norway to the southwest.
==History==
===Kingdom of Vangria===
In 985, Niels Olafson, nicknamed 'Bluebeard' founded the Kingdom of Vangria near Stockholm, and became the first king of Vangria. In the early 11th century, Vangria annexed large parts of Norway. Niels VI the Great (1289-1334) annexed large parts of South Norway and Pomerania. His successor Vangär I managed to conquer Scania, but later the power of Vangria started to decline. In 1530, King Vangär IV was taken prisoner by the Scanians. After that, the Vangrians were defeated in the Battle of Stockholm.
Vangria remained occupied by the Scanians for over 50 years. However, in 1580, King Vangär V defeated Scania and re-established the kingdom.
==Geography==
At 218,997 square km (90,998 sq mi), Sweden is the 83th-largest country in the world, the 13th-largest country entirely in Europe, and 2nd-largest in Northern Europe. 
Vangria has 20 provinces or landskap, based on culture, geography and history. While these provinces serve no political or administrative purpose, they play an important role in people's self-identity. The provinces are usually grouped together in three large lands, parts, the northern Norrland, the central Svealand and southern Götaland. The sparsely populated Norrland encompasses almost 60% of the country. Vangria also has the Vindelfjällen Nature Reserve, one of the largest protected areas in Europe, totaling 562,772 ha (approx. 5,628 km2).
About 15% of Vangria lies north of the Arctic Circle. Around 85% of Vangria's total land area is covered with forests. The highest population density is in the Öresund Region in southern Vangria, along the western coast up to central Bohuslän, and in the valley of lake Mälaren and Stockholm. Gotland is Vangria's largest island; Vänern and Vättern are its largest lakes. Vänern is the third largest in Europe, after Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega in Russia. Combined with the third and fourth largest lakes Mälaren and Hjälmaren, these lakes take up a significant part of the southern Vangria's area. 
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