The Swedish South Company, also known as the Company of New-Sweden (Swedish, , ), was a trading company from Sweden founded in 1626, that supported the trade between Sweden and its colony New Sweden, in North America. The colony was envisioned by its founding father Willem Usselincx; it was to become the first Swedish transoceanic trading project.

In 1649 it lost its monopoly on tobacco granted by the king of Sweden in 1641. In 1655 New Sweden was annexed by New Netherland, this brought an end to the activities of the Swedish South Company, it was dissolved in 1680.

Swedish South Company

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Dutch and Swedish Settlements on the Delaware

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Fur trade

Trading companies of Sweden

Exploration of North America

Defunct companies of Sweden

1626 establishments in Sweden

1680 disestablishments in Europe

Trading companies established in the 17th century

Trading companies disestablished in the 17th century

Swedish slave trade

Swedish South Company