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 |
Famous quotes containing the words stockholm, urban and/or area:
“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.
“A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,—if only that the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)