Urban areas of Sweden

The Urban areas of Sweden are a common English term of the Swedish language-term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is however locality. The places can be compared with, for example, the census-designated places in the USA.

The localities of Sweden have at least 200 people lived there.[1] But the concept is statistical, and not defined by any municipal or county borderlines.[2][3] Urban areas referred to as towns (Swedish: [stad] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) for statistical purposes at least 10,000 inhabitants.[4] In 2010 there was 1,956 urban areas in Sweden. They covered 85 % of the Swedish population.[3]

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  4. Statistics Sweden. Be 16 SM 9601, Tätorter 1995, p. 2: "Towns (localities with more than 10,000 inhabitants)".