Stockholm municipality is a green city and just over 40 percent of the land consists of parks and green areas. Here you will find large hiking areas, fine parks and promenades as well as small district parks. Stockholm’s nature is characterized by its special location between Lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea and through Mälardalen’s mild climate with cultivation zone II corresponding to Skåne’s inland. Despite over a thousand years of influence of people through buildings, the construction of streets, roads and squares, as well as parks and green areas, there are only a few kilometers from Stockholm City’s completely original nature areas.