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This is a list of urban areas in Finland by population, with the 100 largest localities or urban areas in Finland on 31 December 2019. [1] The list is based on data from Statistics Finland that defines an urban area as a cluster of dwellings with at least 200 inhabitants. [2]
The following is a list of cities and towns (Finnish: kaupunki, Swedish: stad) in Finland.[a] The basic administrative unit of Finland is municipality.Since 1977, there is no legal difference between towns and municipalities, [1] and a municipality can independently decide to call itself a city or town if it considers that it meets the requirements of an urban settlement. [2]
Population Area (km 2) Density (/km 2) Stockholm Sweden: 990,261 [1] 187.16 [2] 5,291 Oslo Norway: 716,272 [3] 426.4 [4] 1,680 Helsinki Finland: 684,589 [5] 214.42 [6 ...
Population density in the Nordic countries. The Stockholm urban area (in blue), the largest urban area in the Nordic countries. The area includes land both inside and outside of the municipality of Stockholm. This is a list of urban areas in the Nordic countries by population.
Finland has a population of over 5.6 million people, ranking it 19th out of 27 within the European Union. The average population density in Finland is 19 inhabitants per square kilometre (49/sq mi), making it the third most sparsely populated country in Europe, after Iceland and Norway. Population distribution is extremely uneven, with the ...
This is a list of municipalities in Finland. There are a total of 308 municipalities , of which 114 have both a Finnish and a Swedish name. [ 1 ] These municipalities are listed by the name in the local majority language, with the name in the other national language provided in parentheses.
The areas of the municipalities vary, as the population is the primary criterion for forming a municipality. The largest municipalities in size are found in Lapland, of which the largest is Inari at 17,333.65 km 2 (6,692.56 sq mi) (130 km square). The smallest municipalities are very small towns.
The second largest is the Tampere urban area with about 342,000 inhabitants in 2019, [2] and the third largest is the Turku urban area with about 278,000 inhabitants in 2019. [ 2 ] The presence of urban areas is used to regulate traffic, with a default of 50 kilometres per hour (31 mph) speed limit inside an urban area and 80 kilometres per ...