List of urban areas in Sweden
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There are 1,956 urban areas in
Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
as defined by
Statistics Sweden Statistics Sweden ( sv, Statistiska centralbyrÄn ; SCB) is the Swedish government agency operating under the Ministry of Finance and responsible for producing official statistics for decision-making, debate and research. The agency's responsib ...
on 31 December 2010. The official term used by Statistics Sweden is "locality" ( sv, tÀtort) 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. The urban areas made up 1.3% of the land area of the whole country. The average population density of the urban areas was 1,491 inhabitants per square kilometre (km2).


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