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List of metropolitan areas in Sweden


Sweden has three metropolitan areas consisting of the areas surrounding the three largest cities, , Gothenburg and Malmö. The statistics have been retrieved from Statistics Sweden and the statistics released November 10, 2014. The official land area for each municipality have also been retrieved from Statistics Sweden, the agency that defines these areas.

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 . It is the largest of the three metropolitan areas in Sweden.

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

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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 .

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