List of the most populated municipalities in the Nordic countries

This is a list of the most populous municipalities in the Nordic countries, with only municipalities of at least 100,000 inhabitants. Of the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden), every country has at least one city above 100,000 inhabitants.

List
Rank Municipality Country Population Land Area
(km2)		 Density
(inhabitants/km2)		 Image
1 Stockholm Sweden 935,619[1] 187.17[2] 4,999
2 Oslo Norway 666,759[3] 454.03[4] 1,469
3 Helsinki Finland 636,365[5] 213.75[6] 2,977
4 Copenhagen Denmark 632,340[7] 86.20[8] 7,115
5 Gothenburg Sweden 556,640[1] 447.76[2] 1,243
6 Aarhus Denmark 340,421 [7] 467.70[8] 718
7 Malmö Sweden 328,494[1] 156.87[2] 2,094
8 Bergen Norway 278,556[3] 445.14[4] 626
9 Espoo Finland 274,672[5] 312.20[6] 880
10 Tampere Finland 228,355[5] 525.01[6] 435
11 Vantaa Finland 219,400[5] 238.37[6] 920
12 Uppsala Sweden 214,559[1] 2,182.80[2] 98
13 Aalborg Denmark 211,937[7] 1,137.30[8] 186
14 Odense Denmark 200,563[7] 305.60[8] 656
15 Oulu Finland 200,486[5] 3,031.00[6] 66
16 Trondheim Norway 190,464[3] 323.01[4] 590
17 Turku Finland 187,686[5] 245.66[6] 741
18 Linköping Sweden 155,817[1] 1,427.44[2] 109
19 Västerås Sweden 147,420[1] 957.89[2] 154
20 Örebro Sweden 146,631[1] 1,373.15[2] 107
21 Helsingborg Sweden 140,547[1] 344.01[2] 409
22 Norrköping Sweden 139,363[1] 1,495.05[2] 93
23 Jyväskylä Finland 138,875[5] 1,171.00[6] 119
24 Jönköping Sweden 135,297[1] 1,480.36[2] 91
25 Stavanger Norway 132,729[3] 68.01[4] 1,952
26 Bærum Norway 124,008[3] 189.28[4] 655
27 Reykjavík Iceland 123,300[9] 274.00[10] 450
28 Umeå Sweden 122,892[1] 2,316.61[2] 53
29 Lahti Finland 119,451[5] 135.05[6] 884
30 Lund Sweden 118,542[1] 427.23[11] 277
31 Kuopio Finland 117,742[5] 2,309.16[6] 51
32 Esbjerg Denmark 115,905[7] 794.50[8] 146
33 Vejle Denmark 113,243[7] 1,062.00[8] 107
34 Borås Sweden 109,880[1] 909.901[2] 121
35 Huddinge Sweden 107,538[1] 131.01[12] 821
36 Frederiksberg Denmark 105,037[7] 8.00[8] 13,130
37 Eskilstuna Sweden 103,684[1] 1,250.49[2] 83
38 Gävle Sweden 101,455[1] 1,613.37[2] 63

See also

References
  1. SCB Statistics Sweden - Population Statistics published February 21, 2017
  2. SCB Statistics Sweden - Official Municipality Land Area for 2013 (retrieved on February 24, 2014) only available in Swedish Archived January 18, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  3. Statistics Norway - Official Population Statistics for 1 January 2017 (published February, 2017)
  4. The Norwegian Mapping Authority - Official Municipality Land Area for 2014 only available in Norwegian
  5. Statistics Finland - Official Population Statistics for Q4-2016 (retrieved February 23, 2017)
  6. NLS National Land Survey of Finland - Official Municipality Land Area for 2014 only available in Finnish and Swedish
  7. Statistics Denmark - Official Population Statistics for 1 January 2018 (retrieved on April 26, 2018)
  8. Statistics Denmark - Official Municipality Land Area for 20131
  9. Statistics Iceland - Official Population Statistics for Q4-2016 (retrieved on February 24, 2017)
  10. National Land Survey of Iceland - Official Municipality Land Area on January 1, 2011

1 The statistics only include matriculated areas covered by the survey, thus most lakes and all seawater is excluded.

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