Sweden Finland. There are several connections from the Stockholm area across the Sea of Åland to Mariehamn in the Åland Islands as well as Turku and Helsinki on the Finnish mainland and beyond to Estonia and St Petersburg in Russia. Ferry routes from the Stockholm area also connect with Ventspils and Riga in Latvia as well as Gdańsk in Poland across the Baltic Sea. The ferry ports of Karlskrona and Karlshamn in southeastern Sweden serve Gdynia, Poland, and Klaipeda, Lithuania. Ystad and Trelleborg near the southern tip of Sweden have ferry links with the Danish island of Bornholm and the German
Poland–Sweden relations the power of each. At peak, the Swedes invaded Poland once, known as the Swedish Deluge, which later had razed much of Poland after serious destructions by the Swedish invaders. At 18th century, the partitions of Poland was the main hot detail in Sweden awake of the fear being partitioned by Russia, but after Russo–Swedish war ended in 1790, successful diplomatic missions from Sweden had finally prevented Sweden from suffering the same fate like Poland. Sweden was the main destination for many immigrants from partitioned Poland. During both World War I and World War II, the Polish community in Sweden