Blekinge is a province in southern Götaland, with 155 000 inhabitants. Its borders are identical to Blekinge County, Blekinge län.

Municipalities

• Karlskrona, county seat and home port of the Swedish Navy.
• Karlshamn
• Olofström
• Ronneby
• Sölvesborg, home to Sweden Rock festival.

Other destinations

• Sturkö

Understand

Just as the neighbouring Scania, Blekinge was part of Denmark, though ceded to Sweden in the Roskilde treaty of 1658. In 1680, the Swedish navy built a base at Karlskrona, soon making the city Sweden's third largest.

Talk

The dialects of Blekinge differs from standard Swedish, and are a bit similar to the Scanian dialects.

Get in

By plane

• Ronneby airport, flights from Stockholm
• Copenhagen airport, plus train

By train

• Öresundståg - Trains from Copenhagen, stopping at Malmö, Lund, Kristianstad, Ronneby ending in Karlskrona.
• SJ - Trains from Gothenburg. They stop in Alvesta, where there is connection from Stockholm. Train change in Emmaboda.

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Get around

By bus

• Blekingetrafiken

See

• Karlskrona
• The archipelago.