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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.
This is a list of municipalities of Sweden after the division at the turn of the year of 2011–12. There are 290 municipalities. 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 status of towns in Sweden was formerly granted by a royal charter, comparable to the United Kingdom's status of borough or burgh before the 1970s or city status today. Unless given such town privileges, a municipality could not call itself stad. To receive the privileges, there were several requirements a municipality needed to fulfill ...
Stockholm (Swedish: [ˈstɔ̂kː(h)ɔlm] ⓘ) [10] is the capital and most populous city of Sweden, as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.Approximately 1 million people live in the municipality, [11] with 1.6 million in the urban area, [12] and 2.4 million in the metropolitan area. [11]
Of the 848 municipalities at the end of that year 132 had a formal city status. On New Year's Day 1971 there were only 464 of them left, and they were all of a unitary type, kommun . The term stad (city or town) is nowadays often used to describe non-administrative localities or urban areas which constituted the former chartered cities.
' 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 have a minimum of 10,000 ...
Ås, a hundred of Västergötland in Sweden; Ås, a village in Västmanland, Sweden; Ås, a village in Jämtland, Sweden; Au, a town in the state of Vorarlberg, Austria. Au, short for Aue, is German for "meadow". Au, a district of the city of Munich, Germany; Au, name of three municipalities in Germany: Au am Rhein, Au (Breisgau) and Au in der ...
Uppsala (/ ʌ p ˈ s ɑː l ə / up-SAH-lə, Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɵ̂pːˌsɑːla] ⓘ; archaically spelled Upsala) is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö.