| Sweden has lowland areas which are similar to those in Denmark and Finland, but also mountain areas, although these are not as barren and steep as those in Norway.
Sweden has a very rocky coastline with hundreds of small islands, some of which are arboreous. This type of coast line, called an archipelago, is found both on the eastern and the western side of the country, in particular around Gothenburg and Stockholm.
More than half the land area in Sweden is covered mainly by coniferous forest. Spruce and pine occur in abundance in the north and in the Småland highlands, but other vegetation zones exist too. At the lower latitude and longitude degrees, the most common vegetation zones are the alpine zone, the birch zone, the coniferous zone and the beech zone in the south.
The conditions for agriculture vary significantly from the southern parts of the country, where the crop season lasts seven months, to the north where the crop season only lasts for four months. However, because of the relatively high temperatures and the long daylight hours, it is possible to farm quite far north.
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