Official Name: Kingdom of Sweden
Population: 9,234,500
Capital: Stockholm - Pop. 807,300
Area: 449,964 sq. km. / 279,595 sq. miles.
Language: Swedish
Religion: Church of Sweden (Lutheran)- automatic at birth
Status of Homosexuality: Legal
Telephone Country Code: 46
Sweden is considered to be one of the most gay-friendly countries in Europe and possibly the world when it comes to laws surrounding homosexuality. The Swedish Constitution bans discrimination on grounds of "sexual orientation". Due to the strong sense of secularism dominating in most of the country and government, Sweden today is seen as a campaigner of gay rights. Despite this, same-sex marriage is still not legal, although civil unions are looked upon as a form of marriage within Swedish law. Sweden may be the seventh country to legalize SSMs, sometime in 2009. Since 1972, there has been an equal age of consent set at 15, regardless of sexual orientation and/or gender.
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