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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.
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]
Sweden's municipal borders. 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).
The Metropolitan Areas of Sweden, "Storstadsområden" ("Greater City Areas" in Swedish), are statistical regions defined by Statistics Sweden. There are three of them, surrounding the three largest cities in Sweden:
Rank Name County Pop. Metro. Rank Name County Pop. Metro. Stockholm Gothenburg: 1: Stockholm: Stockholm: 952,058: 2,205,105: 11: Umeå: Västerbotten: 125,434: ...
Rank Core city (cities) Metro area population [1] County Region Stockholm Gothenburg Malmö Uppsala: 1 Stockholm: 2,308,143 Stockholm County: Svealand: 2 Gothenburg
[2] [3] The three largest cities are Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. Sweden's population has become much more ethnically, religiously and linguistically diverse over the past 70 years as a result of immigration. Every fourth (24.9%) resident in the country has a foreign background and every third (32.3%) has at least one parent born abroad.
A total of 8,016,000 – 85 per cent – of the Swedish population lived in an urban area; occupying only 1,3 per cent of Sweden's total land area, and the most populous urban area is Stockholm at 1,4 million people. [3] [9] There are over 2,000 urban areas in Sweden as defined by Statistics Sweden on 31 December 2023. [10]