Urban Areas In Sweden

Definitions

• ttort is the central concept, and one that is actually commonly agreed on. A ttort is any village, town, or city with a population of at least 200 for which the contiguous built-up area meet the criterion that houses are not more than 200 meters apart when discounting rivers, parks, roads, etc. A ttort may be a conurbation of several towns. Ttort is sometimes translated to "urban area", although below the translation "non-rural area" is preferred.

• smort is a concept, lesser known outside of the field of statistics, for settlements just below the limit to be defined as ttort. It is defined as a contiguous built-up area with no more than 150 meters between houses and 50199 inhabitants. In a bureaucratic mindset, a smort is rural. In a rural mindset, this is not neccessarily so.

• fritidshusomrde is in statistical context an area with less than 50 permanent inhabitants but at least 50 houses (in practice: weekend cottages/summer houses) meeting the criterion that they are not more than 150 metres apart. About a third of Sweden's "second homes" are located in such areas. The term belongs also to everyday usage, although less strictly defined, and with somewhat negative connotations.

• by is the standard term for village and hamlet, but may in some contexts, notably for Scania, be used for suburbs and towns of considerable size. If at all used in the context of statistics, it must be assumed that the size of a by is smaller than that of a smort. (NB! Not to be confused with the same word in Danish and Norwegian that means town/city.)

• centralort is mostly used in the meaning municipal seat or (municipal) center of service, commerce and administration for a area. In a historical context, centralort may be seen used interchangeably with tingsplats, i.e. the site of the ting of a hundred or of a historical province.

• huvudort is rarely used for seats of local government, i.e. specifically a municipal seat.

• samhlle is a much used concept whose concrete meaning is a locality in size and importance intermediary between that of a town and a that of a village. Confusingly, the term is also used abstractly to mean "society", "community", or even "state". (Compare: Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft.) A samhlle does not neccessarily meet the criteria for ttort — not even for smort.

• municipalsamhlle is a dated term no longer used outside of historical contexts. Its meaning was in effect similar to that of centralort, but governmentally applied only to localities that weren't towns or market towns.

• kping is a term that since 1971 is abolished in governmental and statistical contexts, and only rarely kept in use by laymen, although it has survived as part of the names of several towns. The meaning was a locality with an intermediary legal status below that of a town, i.e. a market town.

• stad is the Swedish term for towns and cities. In a context of statistics, it may be restricted to towns with a population greater than 10,000, which is a restriction counter-intuitive to most Swedes. Judicially, the term is obsolete since 1971, but the term is still in common use.

• frstad and frort are much used terms for suburb.

• storstad is the nearest translation for the concept of city. There exists no specific criterion for its definition, but many Swedes would agree that a storstad has to be the center of a metropolitan area. It ought to be kept in mind that a distinction between town and city is really not made in Swedish. "Storstad" means literally "large town". Statistics Sweden count Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malm as "storstad".

Statistics

• 84% of the Swedish population lives in non-rural areas (i.e. in ttorts).
• 50% lives in the 64 largest urban areas.
• A third lives in the 15 largest urban areas, and
• A quarter lives in the 5 largest.
• The largest and most populous urban area is Stockholm.

The largest urban areas

The most densely populated areas

Towns divided by municipality borders

• 11 municipalities:
• Stockholm urban area
• 4 municipalities:
• Gothenburg urban area
• 3 municipalities:
• Tby urban area
• 2 municipalities:
• Baggetorp
• Billdal
• Emsfors
• Fglavik
• Gnesta UA
• Hallsberg UA
• Kvicksund
• Krsta och Bredsdal
• Lanna in Nrke
• Lanna in Smland
• Ludvika UA
• Lberd
• Malm UA
• Munkfors UA
• Mlnlycke
• Norrhult-Klavrestrm
• Pukavik
• Ramvik
• Rydebck
• Saxtorpsskogen
• Skoby
• Skutskr
• Tullstorp
• Tumba
• Tgarp
• Upplands Vsby UA
• Vallentuna UA
• Vejbystrand
• Viken
• motfors
• storp UA
• stersund UA

See also

• Largest urban areas of the European Union

External links

• Ttort-statistics from Statistics Sweden

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