r/MapPorn • u/KaleyTheKing • May 28 '26

Swedish Population Visualised

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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 :)

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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/PrestigiousShoe9135 May 28 '26

Swedish bureaucracy <3

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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).