The Metropolitan Areas of Sweden, "Storstadsområden" ("Greater City Areas" in swedish), are statistical regions defined by Statistics Sweden. There are three of them, surrounding the three largest cities in Sweden: Stockholm (population: 1,695,946), Gothenburg (816,931) and Malmö (539,190).
All three areas can also be counted to larger urban regions: Stockholm-Mälaren Region, Gothenburg Region and Øresund Region respectively. These larger regions are political, not statistical regions, formed by municipalities and counties for metropolitan cooperation.
The metropolitan areas of Sweden should not be confused with the urban areas in Sweden.
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Definitions of the Metropolitan Areas of Sweden (http://www.scb.se/Grupp/regionalt/rg0105/storstadsomr.pdf)
A metropolitanarea is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or hubs.
A metropolitanarea usually combines an agglomeration (the contiguous built-up area) with peripheral zones not themselves necessarily urban in character, but closely bound to the centre by employment or commerce; these zones are also sometimes known as a commuter belt, and may extend well beyond the urban periphery depending on the definition used.
The term metropolitanarea is sometimes abbreviated to 'metro', for example in Metro Manila and Washington, DC Metro Area, and in that case should not be mistaken to mean the metro rail system of the city.
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