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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 population of the whole country. [1] The urban areas made up 1.3% of the land area of the whole ...
South Sweden is situated in the southern part of its country. It is close to Denmark and it borders with the riksområden of Småland and the islands and West Sweden . The most populous cities are Malmö , Helsingborg , Lund , Karlskrona , Kristianstad , Landskrona and Trelleborg .
The demography of Sweden is monitored by the Statistiska centralbyrån (Statistics Sweden). Sweden 's population was 10,555,448 (1 Nov 2023), making it the 15th-most populous country in Europe after Czech Republic , the 10th-most populous member state of the European Union , and the 87th-most populous country in the world.
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]
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).
Population Area (km 2) Density (/km 2) Stockholm Sweden: 990,261 [1] ... 1 The statistics only include matriculated areas covered by the survey, ...
Jönköping is situated on the southern shore of Sweden's second largest lake, Vättern, in the province of Småland. The city is the seat of Jönköping Municipality, which has a population of 144,699 (2022) and is Småland's most populous municipality. [6] Jönköping is also the seat of Jönköping County which has a population of 367,064 ...
For example, in 2013 the 'functional urban area' of Aarhus had a population of 845,971, while the 'functional urban area' of Tampere had a population of 364,992. However, according to official statistics, the "taajama" of Tampere is larger than the "byområde" of Aarhus (eurostat.ec). This suggests that direct comparisons between Finland and ...