The lowliest of the Nordic top ten, Sweden has swapped with Australia to climb one place thanks to its combination of beautiful wilderness, hip cities and Scandi cool.
For visitors, Stockholm is probably the most beautiful Scandinavian city of all.
The tiny Italian town of Candela was bustling in the 1990s. The cute area may have only had around 8,000 people living there, but there was still a lot going on.