Stockholm is the capital of Sweden, and consequently the site of its Government and Parliament as well as the residence of the Swedish head of state, King Carl XVI Gustaf.

Stockholm has been Sweden's political and economic center since the 13th century.
[1] Today it is the largest municipality of Sweden, with a population of 776,000, while
the populations of the Stockholm urban area and Metropolitan Stockholm are roughly
1.2 and 1.9 million, respectively.

With its location on the east coast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren,
by the Stockholm archipelago, it is widely renowned for its beauty.

The Stockholm Globe Arena or, in Swedish, Globen ("The Globe") is an arena in
Stockholm, Sweden.

It is currently the largest hemispherical building in the world and took two and a half
years to build. Shaped like a large golf ball, it has a diameter of 110 metres (361 feet)
and an inner height of 85 metres (279 feet). The volume of the building is 600,000 cubic metres (21,188,800 cubic feet). It has seating for 16,000 spectators. It would take about
40 years to fill the Stockholm Globe Arena with water from a tap. It represents the Sun
in the Sweden Solar System, the world's largest scale model of the Solar System.