List of metropolitan areas in Sweden

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] The official land areas for each municipality have also been retrieved from Statistics Sweden, the agency that defines these areas.^[3]

Population centers

See also: List of urban areas in the Nordic countries

As of 2018^[update], Sweden had 2 metropolitan areas with a population of over 1,000,000 people each.

The following table shows the populations of the top ten metropolitan areas.

Leading population centers					view talk edit
Rank	Core city (cities)	Metro area population[4]	County	Region	Stockholm Gothenburg Malmö Uppsala
1	Stockholm	2,308,143	Stockholm County	Svealand
2	Gothenburg	1,021,831	Västra Götaland County	Götaland
3	Malmö	669,471	Skåne County	Götaland
4	Uppsala	294,689	Uppsala County	Svealand
5	Helsingborg	242,540	Skåne County	Götaland
6	Linköping	207,052	Östergötland County	Götaland
7	Örebro	206,344	Örebro County	Svealand
8	Västerås	198,800	Västmanland County	Svealand
9	Jönköping	170,494	Jönköping County	Götaland
10	Norrköping	163,368	Östergötland County	Götaland
Based on 2018 functional urban areas population estimates from Eurostat

Metropolitan Stockholm

Central Stockholm and Old Town

Metropolitan Stockholm (also known as Greater Stockholm or, in Swedish, Storstockholm), is a metropolitan area surrounding the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Since 2005, Metropolitan Stockholm is defined by official Swedish Statistics as all of Stockholm County.^[5] It is the largest of the three metropolitan areas in Sweden.

Metropolitan Stockholm is divided into 5 areas: Stockholm City Centre, Söderort, Västerort of Stockholm Municipality; and the northern suburbs and southern suburbs, which consists of several municipalities.

Municipality	Population	Area[1]	Density[2]	Part
Stockholm	914,909	187.17	4,861.76	Centre, West, South
Huddinge	104,353	131.01	795.01	Southern Suburbs (Södermanland)
Botkyrka	89,142	194.17	451.05
Salem	16,201	54.09	297.76
Södertälje	92,490	525.15	175.18
Nykvarn	9,862	152.76	63.52
Nynäshamn	27,168	358.76	75.16
Haninge	92,095	458.07	179.04
Tyresö	45,629	69.25	651.94
Nacka	96,420	95.12	1,005.61
Värmdö	40,660	448.03	89.91	Northern Suburbs (Uppland)
Lidingö	45,598	30.80	1,476.23
Vaxholm	11,385	57.88	195.51
Österåker	41,317	312.40	131.33
Norrtälje	57,694	2016.04	28.50
Vallentuna	32,008	358.36	88.96
Sigtuna	44,174	327.40	134.46
Upplands-Bro	25,370	235.47	107.15
Upplands Väsby	41,883	75.09	556.49
Täby	67,519	60.72	1,109.24
Sollentuna	69,525	52.64	1,314.27
Danderyd	32,286	26.40	1,222.01
Järfälla	71,130	53.81	1,306.11
Ekerö	26,770	217.68	122.30
Sundbyberg	44,663	8.67	5,047.64
Solna	74,273	19.30	3,834.77
Total	2,205,105	6,526.24	335.94

¹ km^2
2 Population per km²

Metropolitan Gothenburg

Central Gothenburg and the harbor, the largest in the Nordic Region

Metropolitan Gothenburg (Storgöteborg or literally Greater Gothenburg), is a metropolitan area surrounding the city of Gothenburg in Sweden. The metropolitan region is located in Västra Götaland County, except for the municipality of Kungsbacka, which is located to the south in Halland County. As of 2005, the municipalities of Alingsås and Lilla Edet were added to the region. The region is often used for statistical measures, and estimates in the 1960s predicted that the region would have about one million inhabitants in the year 2000. The region is the second largest metropolitan area in Sweden after Metropolitan Stockholm.

Municipality	Population	Area[1]	Density[2]
Gothenburg	565,496	447.76	1,206.30
Mölndal	66,733	145.84	430.05
Partille	37,931	56.83	641.62
Härryda	37,430	266.78	135.83
Lerum	41,660	258.61	153.50
Ale	30,399	316.51	89.54
Kungälv	44,312	362.59	116.64
Öckerö	12,930	25.74	490.09
Tjörn	15,862	167.36	90.17
Stenungsund	26,325	251.91	100.08
Lilla Edet	13,948	316.23	41.05
Alingsås	40,566	472.03	82.86
Kungsbacka	82,382	606.67	128.73
Total	1,015,974	3,694.86	262.25

¹ km^2
2 Population per km²

Metropolitan Malmö

The Øresund strait between Malmö and Copenhagen with Malmö in the foreground and the island of Amager and part of southern Copenhagen in the background

Greater Malmö (Stormalmö), also known as Metropolitan Malmö is the metropolitan area of Malmö in Sweden. The area is located in Southwestern Scania (Sydvästra Skåne), which is often considered synonymous with Greater Malmö, and it is part of the wider transnational Öresund Region. Besides Malmö, large towns in Greater Malmö includes Lund and Trelleborg, the former of which was the seat of the historical Catholic Archdiocese of Lund.

Since the 1970s, improvements in highways and the regional and InterRegio train networks means the commuting area has grown to include Ystad, Skurup, Sjöbo, Eslöv, Höör, Landskrona and Helsingborg, though only some of these are included in official definitions of Greater Malmö. It's not uncommon to live in Malmö and work either in Ystad or Helsingborg, or vice versa, but these towns have kept their mental allegiance with older divisions of Scania. Commuting across the Öresund has become more common, both through the Øresund Bridge and the HH Ferry route, at which car ferries departs every 12 minutes in summer (every 15 minutes in winter).

Statistics Sweden, which sets the official definitions for all metropolitan areas in Sweden, has changed which municipalities are included in Greater Malmö over time. The most recent change to the definition came in 2006, when Eslöv, Höör, and Skurup Municipalities became part of Greater Malmö, bringing the number of municipalities included from 9 to 12.

Municipality	Population[6]	Area (km2)[7]	Density (N per km2)
Malmö	351,749	156.95	2,241.4
Lund	123,495	426.83	289.3
Trelleborg	44,992	340.00	132.3
Vellinge	36,460	142.65	255.6
Eslöv	33,667	418.96	80.4
Kävlinge	31,536	152.45	206.9
Lomma	24,782	55.49	446.6
Staffanstorp	24,778	106.81	232.0
Svedala	21,654	217.71	99.5
Burlöv	18,449	18.90	976.1
Höör	16,691	290.51	57.5
Skurup	15,731	193.42	81.3
Total	733,037	2,520.68	290.8

See also

• Largest metropolitan areas in the Nordic countries
• List of the most populated municipalities in the Nordic countries
• List of metropolitan areas in Europe
• Stockholm urban area
• Largest urban areas of the European Union

References

1. SCB Statistics Sweden – Definition of Metropolitan Areas in Sweden published in 2005
2. SCB Statistics Sweden – Population Statistics published November 10, 2014 (only available in Swedish) Archived 11 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine
3. SCB Statistics Sweden – Official Land Area per Municipality, retrieved February 24, 2014 (only available in Swedish) Archived 18 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine
4. "Population on 1 January by age groups and sex - functional urban areas". 2021.
5. SCB Statistics Sweden – Regional Divisions in Sweden published in 2005
6. "Folkmängd i riket, län och kommuner 31 mars 2019 och befolkningsförändringar 1 januari–31 mars 2019" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 10 May 2019.
7. "Land and water area 1 January by region and type of area. Year 2012 – 2019". Statistics Sweden. Retrieved 23 July 2019.

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