The Stockholm urban area (Swedish: Stockholms tätort) is the largest and most populous of the statistical localities or urban areas in Sweden. It has no administrative function of its own, but constitutes a continuous multimunicipal built-up area, which extends into 11 municipalities in Stockholm County. It contains the municipal seats of 10 of those. The population at the end of 2005 was 1.25 million. Stockholm urban area is not the same as Metropolitan Stockholm (Storstockholm), which is a much larger area.
As of 31 December 2010, the population in the Stockholm urban area was 1,372,565 inhabitants, the area 381.63 km2 (147.35 sq mi), and the population density 3,597 inh/km².
The population of the urban area and the municipalities into which it extends, broken down per municipality is the following:
| Municipality | Population | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Stockholm urban area |
In other urban areas |
Other | Total | % in Stockholm urban area |
|
| Stockholm | 770,889 | 0 | 149 | 771,038 | 99.98 |
| Huddinge | 86,802 | 1,071 | 877 | 88,750 | 97.81 |
| Järfälla | 61,574 | 0 | 169 | 61,743 | 99.73 |
| Solna | 60,402 | 0 | 173 | 60,575 | 99.71 |
| Sollentuna | 55,023 | 4,242 | 90 | 59,355 | 92.70 |
| Botkyrka | 50,613 | 23,773 | 2,206 | 76,592 | 66.08 |
| Haninge | 41,785 | 25,304 | 4,748 | 71,837 | 58.17 |
| Tyresö | 37,947 | 2,751 | 436 | 41,134 | 92.25 |
| Sundbyberg | 34,016 | 0 | 0 | 34,016 | 100.00 |
| Nacka | 28,080 | 51,322 | 845 | 80,247 | 34.99 |
| Danderyd | 24,889 | 5,314 | 23 | 30,226 | 82.34 |
| Total | 1,252,020 | 113,777 | 9,716 | 1,375,513 | 91.02 |
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“He was begotten in the galley and born under a gun. Every hair was a rope yarn, every finger a fish-hook, every tooth a marline-spike, and his blood right good Stockholm tar.”
—Naval epitaph.
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—George Chauncey, U.S. educator, author. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, p. 1, Basic Books (1994)
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—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)