The Kingdom of Sweden (Sverige in Swedish) is the largest country of northern Europe, occupying the entire west coast of the Baltic Sea. Along with its lengthy coast Sweden has a distinguished lighthouse history and a good record of preserving its historic lights. The Swedish Lighthouse Society (Svenska Fyrsällskapet) works actively for the preservation of the lighthouses. Sweden is divided into 21 counties (län) and the counties are subdivided into townships and municipalities (kommuner). This page covers lighthouses of the Swedish county of Scania (Skåne Län), the southernmost county of Sweden. Scania faces west on the Kattegat and the Öresund, which separate Sweden and Denmark, and also south and southeast on the Baltic Sea. The county includes the two major port cities of Helsingborg and Malmö. The Swedish word for a lighthouse is fyr. The front light of a range is the nedrefyr (lower light) and the rear light is the övrefyr (upper light). Ö is an island, holme is an islet, skär is a skerry (a tiny island or rocky reef), sund is a strait (often between an island and the mainland), vik is a bay, hav is a sea, udde is a headland, and hamn is a harbor. Aids to navigation in Sweden are maintained by the Swedish Maritime Administration (Sjöfartsverket). ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. SV numbers are from the Sjöfarsverket light list (Svenska Fyrlista) as reported by the Swedish Lighthouse Society. Admiralty numbers are from volume C of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 116.
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East and South Coasts (Baltic Sea) Lighthouses
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West Coast (Öresund) Lighthouses
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![]() Flintrännan Light 17, Öresund, August 2009 ex-Panoramio photo copyright gpermant; used by permission |
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![]() Pinhätten Light, Barsebäckshamn, February 2015 SFA Creative Commons photo by Niels Stumman |
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Information available on lost lighthouses:
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Adjoining pages: North: Halland | East: Blekinge | South: Bornholm | West: Copenhagen Area
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Posted April 9, 2007. Checked and revised March 30, 2025. Lighthouses: 54; lightships: 1. Site copyright 2025 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.