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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

Municipality Country Population Area
(km2) 		Density
(/km2)
Stockholm   Sweden 990,261 [1] 187.16 [2] 5,291
Oslo   Norway 716,272 [3] 426.4 [4] 1,680
Helsinki   Finland 674,963 [5] 214.42 [6] 3,148
Copenhagen   Denmark 653,664 [7] 86.4 [8] 7,566
Gothenburg   Sweden 604,325 [1] 447.76 [2] 1,350
Malmö   Sweden 361,974 [1] 156.87 [2] 2,307
Aarhus   Denmark 361,544 [7] 467.70 [8] 773
Espoo   Finland 314,152 [5] 312.35 [6] 1,006
Bergen   Norway 291,189 [3] 445.14 [4] 654
Tampere   Finland 255,066 [5] 524.89 [6] 486
Vantaa   Finland 247,447 [5] 238.38 [6] 1,038
Uppsala   Sweden 245,663 [1] 2,182.80 [2] 113
Aalborg   Denmark 222,571 [7] 1,137.30 [8] 196
Oulu   Finland 214,651 [5] 2,972.44 [6] 72
Trondheim   Norway 214,093 [3] 323.01 [4] 663
Odense   Denmark 207,762 [7] 305.60 [8] 680
Turku   Finland 201,889 [5] 245.63 [6] 822
Linköping   Sweden 167,578 [1] 1,427.44 [2] 117
Västerås   Sweden 159,663 [1] 957.89 [2] 167
Örebro   Sweden 159,437 [1] 1,373.15 [2] 116
Helsingborg   Sweden 151,403 [1] 344.01 [2] 440
Stavanger   Norway 148,682 [3] 68.01 [4] 2,186
Jyväskylä   Finland 147,821 [5] 1,171.03 [6] 126
Jönköping   Sweden 146,330 [1] 1,480.36 [2] 99
Norrköping   Sweden 145,222 [1] 1,495.05 [2] 97
Reykjavík   Iceland 142,740 [9] 274.00 [10] 521
Umeå   Sweden 133,112 [1] 2,316.61 [2] 57
Bærum   Norway 130,772 [3] 189.28 [4] 691
Lund   Sweden 130,506 [1] 427.23 [11] 305
Kuopio   Finland 124,011 [5] 3,241.74 [6] 38
Vejle   Denmark 120,949 [7] 1,062.00 [8] 114
Lahti   Finland 120,700 [5] 459.5 [6] 263
Kristiansand   Norway 116,735 [3] 428.21 [4] 273
Esbjerg   Denmark 115,758 [7] 794.50 [8] 146
Borås   Sweden 114,747 [1] 909.901 [2] 126
Huddinge   Sweden 114,118 [1] 131.01 [12] 871
Nacka   Sweden 110,529 [1] 95.12 [2] 1162
Eskilstuna   Sweden 107,713 [1] 1,250.49 [2] 86
Halmstad   Sweden 105,838 [1] 1014.13 [2] 104
Frederiksberg   Denmark 104,664 [7] 8.70 [8] 12,030
Drammen   Norway 104,109 [3] 135 [4] 771
Gävle   Sweden 103,581 [1] 1,613.37 [2] 64
Södertälje   Sweden 102,525 [1] 525.15 [2] 195

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Statistics Sweden - Official poulation 1 November 2023
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q 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. ^ a b c d e f g Statistics Norway - Population at the end of the third quarter 2023 (30 September 2023)
  4. ^ a b c d e f g The Norwegian Mapping Authority - Official Municipality Land Area for 2014 only available in Norwegian
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Immigration record high in Finland in 2023". Statistics Finland. 25 January 2024. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i NLS National Land Survey of Finland - Official Municipality Land Area for 2023 only available in Finnish and Swedish
  7. ^ a b c d e f g Statistics Denmark - Official Population Statistics for 1 January 2023 (retrieved on 4 February 2024)
  8. ^ a b c d e f g Statistics Denmark - Official Municipality Land Area for 20131
  9. ^ Statistics Iceland - Official Population Statistics for Q3-2023 (retrieved on 4 February 2024)
  10. ^ National Land Survey of Iceland - Official Municipality Land Area on January 1, 2011
  11. ^ "Statistikmyndigheten SCB".
  12. ^ "Statistikmyndigheten SCB".

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

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