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List of cities in Sweden. Map of Sweden. Stockholm, capital of Sweden. Gothenburg. Malmö. This is a list of cities in modern Sweden that once enjoyed city privileges, thus were entitled to call themselves town ( Swedish: stad, plural städer ). The year indicates the year they were established or when they were granted a royal charter. The ...
There are 1,956 urban areas in Sweden as defined by Statistics Sweden on 31 December 2010. The official term used by Statistics Sweden is "locality" (Swedish: tätort) instead of "urban area" and they are defined as having a minimum of 200 inhabitants. The total population of the localities was 8,016,000 in 2010, which made up 85% of the ...
Cities and towns in Sweden are neither political nor administrative entities; rather they are localities or urban areas, independent of municipal subdivisions. The largest city, in terms of population, is the capital Stockholm , in the east, the dominant city for culture and media, with a population of 1,250,000.
This is a list of municipalities of Sweden after the division at the turn of the year of 2011–12. There are 290 municipalities. All statistics are from 1 January 2013, except for population (30 September 2013) and density (1 January 2013 and 30 September 2013). Code refers to the municipality code, Total area includes seawater area and Inland ...
An urban area or tätort ( lit. 'dense locality') in Sweden has a minimum of 200 inhabitants and may be a city, town or larger village. [ 1] It is a purely statistical concept, not defined by any municipal or county boundaries. [ 2][ 3] Larger urban areas synonymous with cities or towns ( Swedish: stad for both terms) for statistical purposes ...
Most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. Municipality: 201,863. Municipality: 285 911. Metropolitan area: 377,116. Capital of Iceland. Municipality: 135,688. Urban area includes all or most of the population of 5 additional municipalities in the Capital region . Municipality: 144 223.
Sweden has three metropolitan areas consisting of the areas surrounding the three largest cities, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. [ 1] The statistics have been retrieved from Statistics Sweden and the statistics released on 10 November 2014. [ 2] The official land areas for each municipality have also been retrieved from Statistics Sweden ...
The then 89 cities/towns (städer) (the same word is used for both city and town in Swedish) were based on the old chartered cities. There was also a third type, köping or market town. The status of these was somewhere between the rural municipalities and the cities. There were only eight of them in 1863, rising to a peak of 96 in 1959.