Swedish expansion was not confined to the Baltic and northern Europe. Sweden held smaller possessions in North America and Africa. These scattered footholds are easy to forget beside the larger land empire. They represented an effort to build commercial reach because Sweden could not make its continental holdings strong enough on their own.
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Sweden also tested an overseas trading empire
Often-overlooked Swedish possessions in North America and Africa represented an attempt to supplement a limited land empire with overseas trade.