Uppland

Uppland
Historical province
Coat of arms
Country	Sweden
Land	Svealand
Counties	Uppsala County Stockholm County
Area
• Total	12,813 km2 (4,947 sq mi)
Population  (31 December 2016)[1]
• Total	1,602,652
• Density	130/km2 (320/sq mi)
Ethnicity
• Languages	Uppländska Stockholmska
Culture
• Flower	Leper lily
• Animal	White-tailed eagle
• Bird	—
• Fish	Aspius
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Uppland (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɵ̌pːland] ^ⓘ) is a historical province or landskap on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital. It borders Södermanland, Västmanland and Gästrikland. It is also bounded by lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. 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 name literally means up land, a name which is commonly encountered in especially older English literature as Upland. Its Latinised form, which is occasionally used, is Uplandia. Uppland is famous for having the highest concentration of runestones in the world, with as many as 1,196 inscriptions in stone left by the Vikings.