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Censuses of the Swedish poplulation are performed by two independant government agencies: Statistics Sweden (Swedish: Statistiska centralbyrån, SCB), and the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (Swedish: Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting, SKL)

This page shows a number of different counts, to give a fairer picture of overall population. Each count has its flaws, such as the urban area count which splits Gothenburg proper into at least 3 different urbanities along rivers; as well as splitting Stockholm into at least two separate urbanities. The division of what is considered a city and what isn't is also political, with longer distances to cross between north to south of the Stockholm municipality than between Malmö and Lund. The differences in size between largest and smallest municipality are ~2,338 times, and between those included in this list of major cities as defined by SKL: ~24,3x, which affects the statistics significantly. In addition the Swedish-Danish border divides the Öresund region, sometimes referred to as the Greater Copenhagen Region, which includes 3,583,842 inhabitants, making it nearly twice the size of the Greater Stockholm Region.

	SKL inhabitants	SKL urban	SKL metro[1]	SKL greater metro[2]	SCB urban	SCB region[3]	SCB municipality	SCB metro
Stockholm	912000	911700	2058300	2058300	1538517	2209640	935619	2269060
Göteborg	541100	507500	964300	964300	581822	995013	556640	997446
Malmö	318100	287200	523500[4]	523500	307496	642642	328494	707120
Lund	11600	86800	197300[5]	197300	88788	642642	118542
Uppsala	207400	147500	257200	319800	152617	253704	214559
Västerås	143700	116400	169200	216500	119372	173332	147420
Örebro	142600	113400	196700	236800	117543	208241	146631
Linköping	151900	108100	189800	242200	108640	177308	155817
Helsingborg	135300	101400	321500[6]	321500	106338	272873	140547
Jönköping	132100	92700	156700	218200	95008	167753	135297
Norrköping	135300	91300	149600	178500	95618	183100	139363
Umeå	119600	82900	137800	149900	84761	153370	122892
Gävle	98300	73900	107500	160500	75451	184346	99788
Södertälje	92200	69200	158300	158300	71774	2209640	94631
Borås	107000	69000	151300	195500	72434	209028	109880
Eskilstuna	100900	68500	100900	117100	68429	138293	103684
Karlstad	88400	63900	136000	179100	62091	179486	90198
Växjö	8700	63400	114800	136200	66275	156629	89500
Halmstad	95500	61400	119300	129600	67294	134156	98538
Sundsvall	97300	51600	115300	115300	58065	125812	98325
Trollhättan	56900	48100	100400	168200	49138	125480	57753
Luleå	76000	47400	76000	112100	43854	109917	76770
Östersund	60500	44600	75100	88700	50397	128673	61745
Borlänge	50700	43100	50700	71600	42502	163797	51604

Notes

a.^ Multiple definitions of metropolitan area exist, this one includes beyond strictly "suburbs" also municipalities with significant commuter activity as defined by SKL. Certain municipalities such as Tranås lie between two cities and lesser commuting activity occurs to both, in this case Jönköping and Linköping. It is only included in one of the areas, namely Jönköping, but still as a major commuting area.

b.^ The greater metropolitan area is defined as including suburbs or municipalities with a lesser degree of commuter activity.

c.^ The regional metropolitan area is defined as including also suburbs or municipalities with significant commuter activity to suburbs or municipalities with significant commuter activity.

d.^ There is some overlap with Kävlinge considered to be a suburb of both Lund and Malmö. SKL includes Kävlinge as a suburb to a Large city, of which only Malmö is one, despite more commuting to Lund. Without Kävling, Greater Malmö has 493700 inhabitants, while Greater-Lund with Kävlinge has 227100 inhabitants.

e.^ Svalöv, which is designated a commuting municipality to Landskrona is included by SKL as a suburb of a major city, which in the region only includes Helsingborg. Therefor it is included in Helsingborgs metropolitan area. Without Svalöv; Helsingborg metropolitan area includes 308000 inhabitants.

f.^ Note that some regions occur several times, such as the Stockholms/Södertälje and Malmö/Lund/Trelleborg region. Note also that Falkenberg/Varberg 105753, Uddevalla 136565, Kristianstad 110222, Kalmar/Nybro 129139; are not included, despite being larger than included regions. None of their cities are considered major cities by SKL.