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 .
10-469: Onsala ( Swedish pronunciation: [ˈʊ̂nːˌsɑːla] ) is a locality situated in Kungsbacka Municipality , Halland County , Sweden , with 11,951 inhabitants in 2010. It is also a 14 km long peninsula on the west coast of Sweden , facing Kattegat , 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of Gothenburg . It dates back to the age of the vikings and was originally an area devoted to
20-728: 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
30-549: 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 built-up area, which extends into 11 municipalities in Stockholm County . It contains the municipal seats of 10 of those. As of 31 December 2019, the population in the Stockholm urban area was 1,593,426 inhabitants, the area 381.63 km (147.35 sq mi), and
40-472: 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. Stockholm urban area The Stockholm urban area ( Swedish : Stockholms tätort )
50-430: 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 a statistical problem. The census of 1910 introduced the concept of "densely populated localities in the countryside". The term tätort (literally "dense place")
60-565: 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 the United States . Until the beginning of the 20th century, only the towns/cities were regarded as urban areas. The built-up area and
70-429: The god Odin , the name being a corruption of the old norse Odin's Sala . In English "The Halls of Odin" The population is around 12-14,000 with a densely inhabited east coast, mainly consisting of single-family homes . The biggest village is Gottskär , in older days a fishing village , and which today has a few restaurants and a leisure boat harbour . Lars Gathenhielm was born in the old parish of Onsala. He
80-522: 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
90-702: Was a Swedish privateer commissioned by the king to raid Danish ships. His wife, Ingela , took over his business as a privateer as a widow . They are interred in a basement crypt beneath the smaller tower of the church . Their white sarcophagi have carved " jolly rogers " at the foot end. Onsala is also home to the Onsala Space Observatory , the Swedish national radio observatory. The following sports clubs are located in Onsala: Urban areas of Sweden In 2018, there were nearly two thousand urban areas in Sweden, which were inhabited by 87% of
100-399: 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., the huge wilderness around Kiruna had been declared
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