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13-403: Edsbyn ( Swedish pronunciation: [ˈěːdsbʏn] ) is a locality and the seat of Ovanåker Municipality , Gävleborg County , Sweden with 4321 inhabitants in 2020. It is located in the historical province of Hälsingland . Edsbyn is most famous for its former ski and nowadays office furniture manufacturing industry Edsbyverken ; the sports club Edsbyns IF ; and being the hometown of

26-743: 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

39-501: A reduction in, and later the suspension of passenger service on 1 September 1971. Limited freight service continued until 2004. Maintenance on the line ceased on 13 December 2015. Inlandsbanan have expressed interest in reopening the line for freight, more specifically lumber and limestone . A cost estimate conducted in 2011 put the cost at least at 60 million SEK . Politicians in the municipalities of Ovanåker , Bollnäs Rättvik , Orsa and Mora have also expressed interest in

52-414: Is a small airfield with a 700-meter grass runway . The closest airport with regular service is Mora–Siljan Airport , located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) southwest of Edsbyn. Edsbyn has a subarctic climate ( Köppen Dfc ) with long winters with occasional strong cold periods and short but mild summers. Being situated in a river valley at a moderately high elevation surrounded by high hills,

65-646: Is the Swedish government agency operating under the Ministry of Finance and responsible for producing official statistics for decision-making, debate and research. The agency's responsibilities include: National statistics in Sweden date back to 1686 when the parishes of the Church of Sweden were ordered to start keeping records on the population. SCB's predecessor, the Tabellverket ("office for tabulation"),

78-592: 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. Statistics Sweden Statistics Sweden ( Swedish : Statistiska centralbyrån [staˈtɪ̌sːtɪska sɛnˈtrɑ̂ːlˌbyːrɔn] ; SCB , lit.   ' Central Bureau of Statistics ' )

91-430: 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")

104-528: 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

117-619: The creator of Minecraft , Markus Persson throughout his early childhood. Edsbyn, along with Alfta and other settlements in the area, used to have rail service along the Bollnäs–Orsa Railway . It was completed in January 1900 as a means of transporting forestry products from the area , with passenger service following, operated by SJ . During the 1960s, an improved road network took over large amounts of both passenger and cargo traffic that used to be carried by rail. This led to

130-536: The line reopening. The closest railway station in use is located in Bollnäs . Today, almost all traffic to Edsbyn occurs via road. Länsväg 301 provides the main connection to nearby towns such as Alfta , Bollnäs and Rättvik . Edsbyn is served by three bus lines, 100, 39 and 172, which are all operated by Xtrafik , the public transport provider in Gävleborg County . Next to Edsbyn Arena , there

143-522: 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

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156-774: The settlement is in a frost hollow . This results in large swings between different times of the day and larger seasonal variations than seen elsewhere in Hälsingland. The following sports clubs are located in Edsbyn: Edsbyns IF is renowned for its successes in men's bandy . The first indoor bandy arena in Sweden, Edsbyn Arena , was built in Edsbyn and dedicated in 2003 by King Carl XVI Gustaf . Urban areas in Sweden In 2018, there were nearly two thousand urban areas in Sweden, which were inhabited by 87% of

169-399: 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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