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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]
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: ...
[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]
Rank Core city (cities) Metro area population [1] County Region Stockholm Gothenburg Malmö Uppsala: 1 Stockholm: 2,308,143 Stockholm County: Svealand: 2 Gothenburg
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 .
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).