History of Swedish Counties

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Swedish Counties: (Län) used in the Family History Library Catalog (24 Counties)

Sweden has assigned a letter code for each county. The letter code is often used to identify the county and it is customary to refer to a county by its letter instead of its name, such as K-län for Blekinge and AC-län for Västerbotten. The official country codes are as follows: