Bible Belt (Sweden)

The Swedish Bible Belt, called bibelbältet in Swedish, is a loosely bounded region centred on Jönköping in northern Småland where surveys of demographics show that people are characteristically more religious than elsewhere in the country. Free churches are relatively popular there compared with the Church of Sweden, and the three Småland counties differ in character: Jönköping is marked by the Free Church tradition, Kalmar by the High Church and Kronoberg by the Old Church. In a broader sense the term is used for the whole area between Jönköping and Gothenburg. Separately, the article notes numerous conservative Laestadian Lutherans in the Torne Valley area in the far north of the country.