SkåneArticle Free Pass Skåne, also called Scania , län (county)
and traditional landskap (province), southern Sweden. Skåne
county was created in 1997 from the counties of Malmöhus and
Kristianstad and is coextensive with Skåne province. Occupying
the peninsular southern tip of Sweden, it is bounded by water on
three sides—the Baltic Sea on the east and south, The Sound
(Öresund) on the west, and the Kattegat (strait) on the
northwest. On the north it borders the traditional provinces of
Halland and Småland and on the northeast the province of
Blekinge. The capital of the county is Malmö. In the southern
part of the county, geologic faulting has produced a series of
ridges trending northwest-southeast. The area is drained by the
Kävlinge River and several streams, but the fault-formed coast
has few harbours. Farther north and inland from the flat coastal
region, with its beaches and summer resorts, are plains that are
among the most fertile in Sweden. Deciduous trees, notably
beech, predominate in the souther