Uppland

Uppland (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɵ̌pːland] ⓘ) is a historical province or landskap on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital.

On the small uninhabited island of Märket in the Baltic, Uppland has a very short and unusually shaped land border with Åland, an autonomous province of Finland.

The traditional provinces of Sweden serve no administrative or political purposes, but are historical and cultural entities.

Historically, Uppland ranked as a duchy and the coat of arms is represented with a ducal coronet, blazoned thus: "Gules, a Royal Orb Or gemmed of the field and Azure with the cross bottoned Argent."

The provincial population corresponds to the different overlapping counties as follows:[1] Uppland is the birthplace of Bridget of Sweden (1303 – 23 July 1373).