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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'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).
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]
Statistics Sweden uses the term metropolitan area (Swedish: storstadsområde) for these three cities and their immediate surroundings and municipalities. [ 7 ] Stad (English: town or city ) is the term avoided by Statistics Sweden , however, it roughly corresponds to urban areas with a population greater than 10,000. [ 4 ]
The term stad (city or town) is nowadays often used to describe non-administrative localities or urban areas which constituted the former chartered cities. A few municipalities (among them Stockholm and Gothenburg ) have decided to use the term in their names whenever possible.
Sweden Note that the population numbers from the countries are from different years, as Statistics Finland, Statistics Norway and Statistics Denmark release the statistic yearly (albeit at different times of the year), Statistics Sweden only release the figures every five years.
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: ...
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