An urban area or tätort ( lit. ' dense locality ' ) in Sweden has a minimum of 200 inhabitants and may be a city, town or larger village. It is a purely statistical concept, not defined by any municipal or county boundaries. Larger urban areas synonymous with cities or towns ( Swedish : stad for both terms) for statistical purposes have a minimum of 10,000 inhabitants. The same statistical definition is also used for urban areas in the other Nordic countries .
13-426: Höganäs ( Swedish pronunciation: [ˈhø̂ːɡaˌnɛːs] ) is a locality and the seat of Höganäs Municipality , Scania County , Sweden . Its population was 14,107 in 2010. Höganäs is nationally known for its ceramics industry, Höganäs Keramik . Höganäs Keramik is part of Iittala Group. Höganäs has the main office of Höganäs AB , one of the world's biggest iron powder manufacturers with subsidiaries around
26-508: A city it had 6,915 inhabitants. Since 1971 it is the seat of Höganäs Municipality , encompassing the Kullaberg peninsula with totally around 24,000 inhabitants. In 2009, the city began accepting the euro in its shops, restaurants, banks, and other businesses. More than 30 shops accept euros in cash as a part of a PR attempt. This article about a location in Skåne County , Sweden
39-510: A statistical problem. The census of 1910 introduced the concept of "densely populated localities in the countryside". The term tätort (literally "dense place") was introduced in 1930. The municipal amalgamations placed more and more rural areas within city municipalities, which was the other side of the same problem. The administrative boundaries were in fact not suitable for defining rural and urban populations. From 1950 rural and urban areas had to be separated even within city limits, as, e.g.,
52-457: Is a municipality in Skåne County in southernmost Sweden . Its seat is located in the city Kristianstad . The present municipality was created in three steps during the last nationwide local government reform, and it has the largest area of the municipalities of Skåne County. In 1967 a number of rural municipalities were merged into the City of Kristianstad . In 1971 more former units were added and
65-703: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Urban areas in Sweden In 2018, there were nearly two thousand urban areas in Sweden, which were inhabited by 87% of the Swedish population. Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort . The official term in English used by Statistics Sweden is, however, " locality " ( Swedish : ort ). It could be compared with " census-designated places " in
78-418: Is trialling a three-year update period. The number of urban areas in Sweden increased by 56 to 1,956 in 2010. A total of 8,016,000 – 85 per cent – of the Swedish population lived in an urban area; occupying only 1,3 per cent of Sweden's total land area, and the most populous urban area is Stockholm at 1,4 million people. Kristianstad Municipality Kristianstad Municipality ( Kristianstads kommun )
91-460: The United States . Until the beginning of the 20th century, only the towns/cities were regarded as urban areas. The built-up area and the municipal entity were normally almost congruent. Urbanization and industrialization created, however, many new settlements without formal city status. New suburbs grew up just outside city limits, being de facto urban but de jure rural. This created
104-484: The city became a unitary municipality. Finally in 1974, the last amalgamations took place, and the municipality reached its present size. The number of original entities (as of 1863) is 35. Its size of 1,818.24 square kilometres (702.03 sq mi) makes it the largest municipality in Skåne County by area. There are 26 urban areas ( Swedish : tätort, locality ) in Kristianstad Municipality. In
117-733: The huge wilderness around Kiruna had been declared a "city" in 1948. From 1965 only "non-administrative localities" are counted, independently of municipal and county borders. In 1971 "city" was abolished as a type of municipality. Urban areas in the meaning of tätort are defined independently on the division into counties and municipalities, and are defined solely according to population density. In practice, most references in Sweden are to municipalities, not specifically to towns or cities, which complicates international comparisons. Most municipalities contain many localities (up to 26 in Kristianstad Municipality ), but some localities are, on
130-522: The other hand, multimunicipal. Stockholm urban area is spread over 11 municipalities. When comparing the population of different cities, the urban area ( tätort ) population is preferred to the population of the municipality. The population of, e.g., Stockholm should be accounted as about 1.6 million rather than the approximately 990,000 of the municipality, and Lund rather about 94,000 than about 130,000. Before 2015 delimitation of localities were made by Statistics Sweden every five years, since then it
143-463: The table, the urban areas are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2020. The municipal seat is in bold characters. This is a demographic table based on Kristianstad Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT 's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 86,502 residents, including 65,373 Swedish citizens of voting age. 37.5% voted for
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#1732873040015156-405: The world. The Höganäs AB company was founded by Count Eric Ruuth in 1797, which makes it one of Sweden's oldest companies. Höganäs began as a small fishing village in the parish of Väsby, documented in 1488 in the written form Høyenæss . In the middle of the 17th century it had 17 homes. Coal was found in the area, and mining started in 1797. In 1798 a railway with wooden rails was built. It
169-408: Was the first of its kind in Sweden and was used to transport coal from the mine to the harbour . The population started to grow and new dwellings were built for the miners. During the 19th century more industries were built using clay for making ceramic products. Höganäs is well known still today for ceramics. The coal mines, however, were closed in the 1960s. In 1936, when Höganäs got the title of
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