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Sweden: cities by population

Sweden has a population of 10,183,175, with Stockholm as its capital. The 50 largest of its 1,293 recorded towns and cities, ranked.

Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are GeoNames country data. Sources & method.

#	Place	Region	Population
1	Stockholm	Stockholm	1,515,017
2	Gothenburg	Västra Götaland	608,462
3	Malmö	Skåne	362,133
4	Uppsala	Uppsala	177,074
5	Linköping	Östergötland	166,673
6	Örebro	Örebro	155,989
7	Sollentuna	Stockholm	139,606
8	Umeå	Västerbotten	130,224
9	Västerås	Västmanland	127,799
10	Jönköping	Jönköping	112,766
11	Helsingborg	Skåne	104,250
12	Norrköping	Östergötland	93,765
13	Huddinge	Stockholm	90,182
14	Lund	Skåne	87,244
15	Luleå	Norrbotten	77,832
16	Haninge	Stockholm	74,968
17	Gävle	Gävleborg	74,884
18	Borås	Västra Götaland	71,700
19	Växjö	Kronoberg	71,282
20	Södertälje	Stockholm	70,777
21	Halmstad	Halland	70,480
22	Eskilstuna	Södermanland	67,359
23	Solna	Stockholm	66,909
24	Karlskrona	Blekinge	66,675
25	Karlstad	Värmland	61,492
26	Mölndal	Västra Götaland	59,430
27	Täby	Stockholm	58,123
28	Sundsvall	Västernorrland	57,606
29	Östersund	Jämtland	49,806
30	Trollhättan	Västra Götaland	48,573
31	Lidingö	Stockholm	42,466
32	Borlänge	Dalarna	41,955
33	Tumba	Stockholm	40,832
34	Kristianstad	Skåne	39,762
35	Nyköping	Södermanland	38,780
36	Kalmar	Kalmar	38,408
37	Falun	Dalarna	37,291
38	Skövde	Västra Götaland	36,842
39	Upplands Väsby	Stockholm	36,534
40	Skellefteå	Västerbotten	35,516
41	Uddevalla	Västra Götaland	34,781
42	Sundbyberg	Stockholm	34,529
43	Varberg	Halland	34,248
44	Åkersberga	Stockholm	32,659
45	Örnsköldsvik	Västernorrland	32,493
46	Danderyd	Stockholm	32,425
47	Landskrona	Skåne	32,229
48	Vallentuna	Stockholm	31,937
49	Motala	Östergötland	30,944
50	Trelleborg	Skåne	29,316

Twenty years earlier: Sweden in the 2005 World Gazetteer — population then 9,043,990.