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 .
10-499: Tärnaby is a locality situated in Storuman Municipality , Lappland , Västerbotten County , Sweden with 482 inhabitants in 2010. It is known for its successful skiers , particularly in the "technical" disciplines: Slalom and Giant Slalom : Ingemar Stenmark , Anja Pärson , Bengt Fjällberg , Stig Strand and Jens Byggmark . In winter, Tärnaby is transformed into one of northern Sweden's ski resorts. By summer,
20-510: 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.,
30-808: 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 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
40-615: 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
50-477: 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 )
60-600: The Laponian lakes and mountains provide opportunities for activities such as fishing, canoeing, hiking and mountain biking. 18 km further north in the Parish of Tärnaby is the village Hemavan , a ski resort, with an airport and start point of the Kungsleden trail. Tärna is the latest permanently settled parish in Sweden, with the oldest new construction built in 1824 at Lövlund. However, for centuries before that,
70-518: The Sami had practiced reindeer herding in the area. There are also around 9,000-year-old Stone Age finds in the area around Tärnasjön. The Swedish Tourist Association's tourist station in Tärnaby was inaugurated on 14 July 1927, by the county governor ( Landshövding ). In the early 1950s, after World War II , tourism in Tärnaby began to develop, with the construction of several hotels and ski lifts. In
80-471: The 1960s, hydroelectric power plants were built, flooding farms and agricultural lands, with the landowners being compensated by the municipality for this intrusion. Since 1971, the parish of Tärna has been part of the municipality of Storuman . 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
90-744: 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
100-522: 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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