Blekinge offers highly varying landscapes in a small area.

There is exotic fauna, fantastic beech forests and delightful oak-clad hills. Thickly wooded islands in Blekinge’s archipelago are just twenty kilometers or so from deep spruce forests with rugged rock formations and many small dark lakes. There are calm streams that in places become wild torrents, passing through long valleys of great natural beauty. There are developed areas with fields, meadows, moors and enclosed pastures with small farmhouses, villages and towns. Backed by the county’s only inland city, the other four cities are situated like a necklace of pearls along the coast.

Blekinge is most closely associated with sea and coast. A long coast, often clad in deciduous forest, with many inlets and stunning views over the glittering sea and archipelago. The province was named for the Swedish word for calm water – bleke.