page_title: List of metropolitan areas in Sweden
section_title: Metropolitan Stockholm
hierarchical_section_title: List of metropolitan areas in Sweden / Metropolitan Stockholm
caption_attribution_description: English: Gamla Stan from Katarinahissen
context_page_description: Sweden has three metropolitan areas consisting of the areas surrounding the three largest cities, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. The statistics have been retrieved from Statistics Sweden and the statistics released November 10, 2014. The official land area for each municipality have also been retrieved from Statistics Sweden, the agency that defines these areas.
context_section_description: Metropolitan Stockholm (also known as Greater Stockholm or, in Swedish, Storstockholm), is a metropolitan area surrounding the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Since 2005, Metropolitan Stockholm is defined by official Swedish Statistics as all of Stockholm County. It is the largest of the three metropolitan areas in Sweden.
  Metropolitan Stockholm is divided into 5 areas: Stockholm City Centre, Söderort, Västerort of Stockholm Municipality; and the northern suburbs and southern suburbs, which consists of several municipalities.
  ¹  km²
  ²  Population per km²
caption: Central Stockholm and Old Town
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