The City of Stockholm is a municipality which is governed by a directly elected City Council. The city has been subdivided into 18 boroughs, which each carry responsibility for primary school, social, leisure and cultural services within their respective areas and is governed by a Borough Council. The political composition of the Borough Councils reflect the composition of the City Council, not the votes from the people in the borough.
Stockholm is the capital and the largest City of Sweden.
The City of Stockholm is administratively a Municipality within Stockholm County, with an inner city population of 750,348, and with 1,823,210 including the suburbs and county.
Main article: Politics of Stockholm The city is subdivided into 18 boroughs, which carry responsibility for primary school, social, leisure and cultural services within their respective areas.
The City of Stockholm is administratively a municipality within Stockholm County.
The population of the city proper is 761,721 (2004), and with the suburbs included, the population is 1,695,946 (2004) (Stockholm County except Norrtälje, Nykvarn, Nynäshamn and Södertälje).
Stockholm might be best known for the Nobel Prizes and the prize ceremony held each year, but the city also houses the largest concentration of universities with research and higher education in Sweden.
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