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Sweden has three [[metropolitan area]]s consisting of the areas surrounding the three largest cities, [[Stockholm]], [[Gothenburg]], and [[Malmö]].<ref>[http://www.scb.se/Grupp/Hitta_statistik/Regional%20statistik/Indelningar/_Dokument/Storstadsomr.pdf SCB Statistics Sweden – Definition of Metropolitan Areas in Sweden published in 2005]</ref> The statistics have been retrieved from [[Statistics Sweden]] and the statistics released on 10 November 2014.<ref>[http://www.scb.se/sv_/Hitta-statistik/Statistik-efter-amne/Befolkning/Befolkningens-sammansattning/Befolkningsstatistik/25788/25795/Kvartals--och-halvarsstatistik---Kommun-lan-och-riket/378570/ SCB Statistics Sweden – Population Statistics published November 10, 2014 ''(only available in Swedish)''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111032147/http://www.scb.se/sv_/Hitta-statistik/Statistik-efter-amne/Befolkning/Befolkningens-sammansattning/Befolkningsstatistik/25788/25795/Kvartals--och-halvarsstatistik---Kommun-lan-och-riket/378570/ |date=11 November 2014 }}</ref> The official land areas for each municipality have also been retrieved from [[Statistics Sweden]], the agency that defines these areas.<ref>[http://www.scb.se/sv_/Hitta-statistik/Statistikdatabasen/Variabelvaljare/?px_tableid=ssd_extern%3aAreal2012&rxid=87a2177f-7ffc-49c9-b4f1-227fd7230618 SCB Statistics Sweden – Official Land Area per Municipality, retrieved February 24, 2014 ''(only available in Swedish)''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140118013112/http://www.scb.se/sv_/Hitta-statistik/Statistikdatabasen/Variabelvaljare/?px_tableid=ssd_extern%3aAreal2012&rxid=87a2177f-7ffc-49c9-b4f1-227fd7230618 |date=18 January 2014 }}</ref>

==Population centers==
{{See also|List of urban areas in the Nordic countries}}

{{As of|2018}}, Sweden had two metropolitan areas with a population of over 1,000,000 people each.

The following table shows the populations of the top ten metropolitan areas.
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==Metropolitan Stockholm==
[[File:Metropolitan Stockholm ver.2.PNG|right|thumb|350px]]
[[File:GamlaStan from Katarinahissen Stockholm Swe.jpg|right|thumb|350px|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]].<ref>[http://www.scb.se/statistik/_publikationer/OV9999_2004A01_BR_X20OP0502.pdf SCB Statistics Sweden – Regional Divisions in Sweden published in 2005]</ref> It is the largest of the three metropolitan areas in Sweden.

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

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

==Metropolitan Gothenburg==
[[File:Metropolitan Gothenburg ver.3.PNG|right|thumb|350px]]
[[File:Gothenburg, Sweden, from the Älsborgs Bridge.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Central Gothenburg and the harbor, the largest in the Nordic Region]]

'''Metropolitan Gothenburg''' (''Storgöteborg'' 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 [[Municipalities of Sweden|municipality]] of [[Kungsbacka Municipality|Kungsbacka]], which is located to the south in [[Halland County]]. As of 2005, the municipalities of [[Alingsås Municipality|Alingsås]] and [[Lilla Edet Municipality|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 2000. The region is the second largest metropolitan area in Sweden after [[Metropolitan Stockholm]].

{| class="sortable wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|-
! class=unsortable | Municipality !! Population !! Area{{Ref label|3|1}}!! Density{{Ref label|4|2}}
|-
|align=left|[[Gothenburg Municipality|Gothenburg]]||565,496 ||447.76||1,206.30
|-
|align=left|[[Mölndal Municipality|Mölndal]]||66,733||145.84||430.05
|-
|align=left|[[Partille Municipality|Partille]]||37,931||56.83||641.62
|-
|align=left|[[Härryda Municipality|Härryda]]||37,430||266.78||135.83
|-
|align=left|[[Lerum Municipality|Lerum]]||41,660||258.61||153.50
|-
|align=left|[[Ale Municipality|Ale]]||30,399||316.51||89.54
|-
|align=left|[[Kungälv Municipality|Kungälv]]||44,312||362.59||116.64
|-
|align=left|[[Öckerö Municipality|Öckerö]]||12,930||25.74||490.09
|-
|align=left|[[Tjörn Municipality|Tjörn]]||15,862||167.36||90.17
|-
|align=left|[[Stenungsund Municipality|Stenungsund]]||26,325||251.91||100.08
|-
|align=left|[[Lilla Edet Municipality|Lilla Edet]]||13,948||316.23||41.05
|-
|align=left|[[Alingsås Municipality|Alingsås]]||40,566||472.03||82.86
|-
|align=left|[[Kungsbacka Municipality|Kungsbacka]]||82,382||606.67||128.73
|-
!Total!!1,015,974!!3,694.86!!262.25
|}
<small>{{note label|3|1}} km<sup>2</sup><br>{{note label|4|2}} Population per km<sup>2</sup><br></small>

==Metropolitan Malmö==
[[File:Metropolitan Malmö ver.1.PNG|right|thumb|350px]]
[[File:Malmo view2.jpg|right|thumb|350px|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 [[Diocese of Lund#Catholic History|Catholic Archdiocese of Lund]].

Since the 1970s, improvements in highways and the [[Pågatåg|regional]] and [[Øresundståg|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 [[Øresund|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 of Sweden|municipalities]] are included in Greater Malmö over time. The most recent change to the definition came in 2006, when [[Eslöv Municipality|Eslöv]], [[Höör Municipality|Höör]], and [[Skurup Municipality|Skurup]] Municipalities became part of Greater Malmö, bringing the number of municipalities included from 9 to 12.

{{aligned table|class=wikitable sortable|cols=4
|row1header=yes|row14header=yes|col1align=left|style=text-align:right|col1class=unsortable
| Municipality | Population<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/befolkning/befolkningens-sammansattning/befolkningsstatistik/pong/tabell-och-diagram/kvartals--och-halvarsstatistik--kommun-lan-och-riket/kvartal-1-2019/|title= Folkmängd i riket, län och kommuner 31 mars 2019 och befolkningsförändringar 1 januari–31 mars 2019|language=sv|date=10 May 2019 |publisher=[[Statistics Sweden]]}}</ref> | Area (km<sup>2</sup>)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/en/ssd/START__MI__MI0802/Areal2012/|title=Land and water area 1 January by region and type of area. Year 2012 – 2019|publisher=[[Statistics Sweden]]|access-date=2019-07-23}}</ref> | Density (N per km<sup>2</sup>)
| [[Malmö Municipality|Malmö]]               | 351,749 | 156.95 | 2,241.4
| [[Lund Municipality|Lund]]                 | 123,495 | 426.83 |   289.3
| [[Trelleborg Municipality|Trelleborg]]     |  44,992 | 340.00 |   132.3
| [[Vellinge Municipality|Vellinge]]         |  36,460 | 142.65 |   255.6
| [[Eslöv Municipality|Eslöv]]               |  33,667 | 418.96 |    80.4
| [[Kävlinge Municipality|Kävlinge]]         |  31,536 | 152.45 |   206.9
| [[Lomma Municipality|Lomma]]               |  24,782 |  55.49 |   446.6
| [[Staffanstorp Municipality|Staffanstorp]] |  24,778 | 106.81 |   232.0
| [[Svedala Municipality|Svedala]]           |  21,654 | 217.71 |    99.5
| [[Burlöv Municipality|Burlöv]]             |  18,449 |  18.90 |   976.1
| [[Höör Municipality|Höör]]                 |  16,691 | 290.51 |    57.5
| [[Skurup Municipality|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]]

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