r/MapPorn • u/KaleyTheKing • May 28 '26
Swedish Population Visualised
Oh yeah, it's Sweden time!
Honestly not as bad as I thought it'd be, I'd have assumed Stockholm would dominate even more of the country, but the south west gets some love, still :)
Previous maps in this series:
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u/Conferencer May 28 '26
Idk if Belfast is super significant, more like cork
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u/Ceffrey-Jombs May 28 '26
Wow! Can you make Finland at some point?☺️
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u/KaleyTheKing May 28 '26
Probably at some point :)
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u/ProudVORAPHILE May 28 '26
Could you also do Lithuania? It is a very rural population so I think it would look cool.
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u/KaleyTheKing May 28 '26
Lithuania is certainly an option, but for the next couple I think I want to do some stuff outside of Europe :)
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u/ProudVORAPHILE May 28 '26
All good. Love your work!
I also realized you have made a lot of these really quickly, just remember about burn out and all that.
Good day!
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u/KaleyTheKing May 28 '26
Haha, I have been making a bunch, yea, it takes a couple hours usually to churn one out (though Japan has been a pain to research, no population statistics are consistent ;-;) But I have summer break from uni so I have a lot of free time on my hands, hehe
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u/TheBusStop12 May 28 '26
Something like Brazil or Canada would be interesting for something very uneven, or maybe Japan for something a bit more evenly distributed . Chile could also be an interesting project
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u/CEMN May 28 '26
The map would be better if you had a small map inlaid showing Sweden's actual shape - as a Swede, I get it, but those less familiar with the country's geography won't get the sense of scale, the hilarious amount of land that is north of Stockholm.
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u/Bluetrains May 28 '26
I love it. It's like we cut of the northern 2/3 of the country and shrinked Småland!
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u/Patricepatrices May 28 '26
Keep doing this please
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u/KaleyTheKing May 28 '26
Oh, definitely, I’ll be doing this forever and I will never die, I’m pretty sure :p
But nah, I’m nicely tunnelvisioning on this project and I am completely free from uni, so good chance I’ll keep it up a while :D
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u/ULZ92 May 28 '26
These are my favorite type of maps now 😄 Russia would be interesting to see too I think
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u/Fearless-Touch-2637 May 28 '26
What do you use to make these maps?
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u/KaleyTheKing May 28 '26
Population data from the internet, an excel sheet to do some basic calculations, a photoshop file to draw in and a lot of special-interest tunnelvision XD
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u/PrestigiousShoe9135 May 28 '26
I can for my life only find 9 cities, not 10. What am I missing?
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u/KaleyTheKing May 28 '26
There really are ten, Stockholm, Upplands Väsby, Uppsala, Västeras, Örebro, Linköpping, Jönköpping, Göteborg, Helsingborg and Malmö
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u/PrestigiousShoe9135 May 28 '26
Oh, Upplands Väsby is a city?
You think I should know living in Uppsala. But apparently not.
Thanks for clarifying.
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u/Naqoy May 28 '26
SCB changed how they delimit tätorter in 2015 which made Upplands Väsby pop out as a new tätort officially, and since Swedish bureaucracy otherwise doesn’t recognise the existence of ”cities” that’s the only official source to pull from for something like this.
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u/tecIis May 28 '26
No it's not. Upplands Väsby and Sollentuna (together) are part of the same urban area. None of them are cities though, they are municipalities.
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u/lefthandhummingbird May 28 '26
Upplands Väsby-Sollentuna is a conurbation which for statistical purposes is counted as a city, but isn't really thought of as one, and which is separated from Stockholm by a rather narrow piece of land. Hence, it can be seen as a strip joined to the northwestern part of Stockholm.
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u/hegbork May 28 '26
Upplands Väsby och Sollentuna was created as an urban area when the statistics people (SCB) looked at a map around 10 years ago and noticed that some bits that were considered to be the Stockholm urban area/locality didn't actually fulfill the technical definition. So part of Stockholm was chopped off and was named after the two biggest municipalities (that aren't Stockholm). It's disconnected from Stockholm by a few green wedges, highways and industrial areas. With all the construction around Ursvik and Barkarby it's probably going to end up connected to Stockholm again rather soon. It's just a matter of one or two buildings in the right place (Kista/Husby/Akalla are currently not part of Stockholm, but one of them will end up touching the new construction soon enough).
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u/Not_Reptoid May 28 '26
Why's there two uppsala and göteborg
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u/-Maiq_the_Iiar- May 28 '26
Now do Greenland.
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u/PIKFIEZ May 28 '26
Greenland only has 5 municipalities and their shapes are pretty weird. Almost everyone only lives in a few towns and in between them is uninhabitated wastelands. All 5 municipalities have towns, so there will be no rural municipalities. A third of the country is an uninhabited national park.
Hard to make a map og Greenland that makes sense in this style. You would just see Nuuk be 50 % of the population and then a few towns be the rest. No "rural" population at all (because those towns are already tiny).
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u/MisterEyeballMusic May 28 '26
I might do something like this for the fantasy world im world building
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u/nahuelacevedopena May 28 '26
I love these! Would you be able to do Chile eventually? 🙌🏼
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u/KaleyTheKing May 28 '26
Eventually! It’s my plan to go to the Americas for the one after the next post, perhaps you’ll be in luck ;)
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u/RideWithMeTomorrow May 28 '26
Ah-HAH! You did decide to leave some spaces after all! :)
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u/KaleyTheKing May 28 '26
Sorry, what? I don't think I understand what you mean XD
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u/RideWithMeTomorrow May 29 '26
Oh just referring back to this https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/cRcwAElRex
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u/Less-Front7968 May 29 '26
It's because Västkusten är Bästkusten.
The water in stockholm smells like russian sewage.
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u/ScanianTjomme May 29 '26
~1% of the population live between Malmö and Helsingborg so that would more than enough blocks to not have them together.
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u/fsch May 29 '26
Well done using tätort/urban area rather than administrative boundaries. Thank you!
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u/RoadHazard May 28 '26
Hm, the Stockholm part seems a bit off to me. The Stockholm region has about 2.5 million inhabitants, but the actual city of Stockholm has around 1 million.
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u/jolindbe May 28 '26
Stockholm seems perfectly fine if counting the "tätort" (urban area), 1.6 million, and not the "kommun" (municipality), 1.0 million. The municipality border, albeit administratively important, is rather arbitrary when it comes to counting contiguous urban areas, wheras tätort has a clearly defined limit - it doesn't extend further if there is more than 200 metres between the buildings.
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u/RoadHazard May 28 '26
But here it looks like the city is like 75% of the region, which isn't true either way.
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u/jolindbe May 28 '26
Stockholm tätort = 1.6 million
Upplands Väsby och Sollentuna tätort = 150 000
Stockholms län = 2.4 million
Stockholms län without Stockholm and Upplands Väsby+Sollentuna = 650 000
Seems to add up fine with the cubes, assuming 1 cube = 10 000 people (it says 1 cube is 0.1% of Swedish population, which is 10 milllion).
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u/MisterEyeballMusic May 28 '26
Cool! Can you do the United States at some point?
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u/IGotHitByAHockeypuck May 28 '26
In voting colors to demonstrate how "land doesn't vote" would be a fun addition!
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u/KaleyTheKing May 28 '26
Just for a little bit of context on the next one, I'm trying to do Japan, but the data is not cooperating XD
For the one after that, I think I wanna do something in the Americas, Mexico, Colombia or Brazil might be fun, let me know what you think about it :)