Stockholm Archipelago is an archipelago in eastern central Sweden, located along most of Stockholm's coastal shores. It is considered Sweden's largest archipelago and the second largest in the Baltic Sea, after the Archipelago Sea in southwestern Finland. Click here to see a map of Stockholm archipelago The area lacks formal boundaries, but is usually considered to extend from Arholma in the northern part of the county, about 150 kilometers (80 nautical miles) along the coasts of Upplands and Södermanland to Landsort in the south and in the west-east direction from Stockholm's mainland about 80 kilometers (43 nautical miles) east to the height of the Swedish Högarna. The archipelago outside of Stockholm is usually divided into two main parts, the northern part of Waxholm as the central place in the south and Norrtälje in the north, and the southern part with Dalarö as the central place in the north and Nynäshamn in the south. The archipelago between Vaxholm and Dalarö and the east is usually called the middle archipelago. All parts of the archipelago can be reached by taxi.

The Stockholm archipelago has been found between Björkö-Arholma and Öja-Landsort to have more than 24,000 islands, islets and cuts and covers approximately 1,700 km² of which about 530 km² are land. There are about 10,000 residents and 50,000 holiday homes in the archipelago. Residential populations are located on all major islands closest to the coast, which have fixed ferry or ferry connections by road ferry such as Vaxholm, Ingarö, Värmdö, Yxlan, Blidö, Ljusterö and Väddö, but also on many of the larger islands further out of the coast such as Ingmarsö, Möja , Runmarö, Nämdö, Ornö and Utö, which are operated by taxi boats and passenger ships with established tour lists. About 15 percent of the land area in the Stockholm archipelago is owned or managed by the Archipelago Foundation. Other land is owned by the majority of private property owners, to a certain extent by various companies operating in the tourism industry, as well as the inland waterways belonging to the properties, where only the owner of the property is entitled to fish fishing.

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