List of metropolitan areas in Sweden

Sweden has three Metropolitan Areas consisting of the areas surrounding the three largest cities, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. The statistics is retrieved from Statistics Sweden and the statistics released February 20 2012.

Metropolitan Stockholm

Central Stockholm & 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. 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.

Statistics

Municipality	Number	Population	Area¹	Density²	Part
Stockholm	1	864,324	188.06	4,596	Centre, West, South
Huddinge	2	99,049	131.34	754	Southern Suburbs (Södermanland)
Botkyrka	3	84,677	194.83	435
Salem	4	15,694	54.32	289
Södertälje	5	87,685	525.57	167
Nykvarn	6	9,331	153.46	61
Nynäshamn	7	26,248	357.23	73
Haninge	8	78,326	457.50	171
Tyresö	9	43,328	69.48	624
Nacka	10	91,616	95.50	959
Värmdö	11	38,894	442.96	88	Northern Suburbs (Uppland)
Lidingö	12	44,081	30.89	1,427
Vaxholm	13	11,141	57.66	193
Österåker	14	39,792	310.75	128
Norrtälje	15	56,245	2010.76	28
Vallentuna	16	30,715	360.06	85
Sigtuna	17	41,329	327.87	126
Upplands-Bro	18	23,984	237.10	101
Upplands Väsby	19	40,194	75.37	533
Täby	20	64,558	60.62	1,065
Sollentuna	21	65,891	52.94	1,245
Danderyd	22	31,799	26.51	1,200
Järfälla	23	67,320	54.05	1,246
Ekerö	24	25,767	216.39	119
Sundbyberg	25	39,539	8.71	4,539
Solna	26	69,946	19.38	3,609
Total	26	2,091,473	6,519.31	320.81	Metropolitan Area

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Metropolitan Gothenburg

Central Gothenburg & The Harbor, the largest in the Nordic Region

Metropolitan Gothenburg (Stor-Göteborg 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.

Statistics

Municipality	Number	Population	Area¹	Density²
Gothenburg	1	520,374	450.71	1,155
Mölndal	2	61,337	146.81	418
Partille	3	35,518	57.19	621
Härryda	4	34,854	268.43	130
Lerum	5	38,788	260.29	149
Ale	6	27,577	318.27	87
Kungälv	7	41,538	364.73	114
Öckerö	8	12,487	25.91	482
Tjörn	9	14,959	168.23	89
Stenungsund	10	24,601	253.54	97
Lilla Edet	11	12,540	317.93	39
Alingsås	12	38,053	474.90	80
Kungsbacka	13	75,954	611.42	124
Total	13	938,580	3,718.36	252.42

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Metropolitan Malmö

Central Malmö & The Øresund Bridge to Copenhagen

Greater Malmö (Swedish: Stor-Malmö) is the metropolitan area that includes Malmö, Sweden, and much of its surroundings. The area encompasses the south-eastern part of the Scandinavian Öresund Region. The metropolitan area surrounding the cities of Malmö and Lund in the southern-most part of Sweden are usually denoted as South-Western Scania (Sydvästra Skåne), or more seldom Metropolitan Malmö.

Since the 1970s, improved highways and commuter train connections have meant that commuting area has grown to include Ystad, Skurup, Sjöbo, Eslöv, Höör, Landskrona and Helsingborg. It's not uncommon to live by Malmö and work either in Ystad or Helsingborg, or vice versa. Mentally, however, these towns have kept their allegiance with older divisions of Scania. Inhabitants of Eslöv and Höör consider themselves to live in Central Scania, like Landskrona still is grouped together with Helsingborg rather than Malmö–Lund.

Statistics

Municipality	Number	Population	Area¹	Density²
Malmö	1	302,835	155.56	1,947
Vellinge	2	33,510	143.18	234
Trelleborg	3	42,542	342.07	124
Skurup	4	14,946	195.17	77
Svedala	5	19,805	218.97	90
Lund	6	111,666	430.27	260
Staffanstorp	7	22,296	107.61	207
Burlöv	8	16,843	18.84	894
Lomma	9	22,017	55.64	396
Kävlinge	10	29,261	153.83	190
Eslöv	11	31,728	421.66	75
Höör	12	15,492	292.96	53
Total	12	662,941	2,535.76	261.44

In 2006 the municipalities of Eslöv, Höör and Skurup were added into the Greater Malmö area.

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See Also

• Largest metropolitan areas in the Nordic countries
• Largest European metropolitan areas
• Stockholm urban area
• Largest urban areas of the European Union