Largest urban areas in the Nordic countries

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The largest urban areas in the Nordic countries can be defined according to guidelines laid down by the statistical bureaux in each country.

In Denmark, Norway and Sweden urban areas may consist of several towns, settlements or suburbs linked together across municipality borders. In other cases, the urban area is smaller than the municipality itself.

In Finland and Iceland, statistics more likely to be based on the figures for the whole municipality. The Helsinki urban area, if seen as one agglomeration, has just over one million inhabitants and ranks as number three, after Stockholm and Copenhagen. If seen as separate urban areas, Helsinki ranks as the fifth Nordic city with a population of 565,911, and Espoo and Vantaa each rank among the major Nordic towns with 236,301 and 191,221, respectively.

The largest metropolitan areas in the Nordic countries differ much more in definition than the urban areas.

[edit] Largest urban areas in the Nordic countries

There are currently 21 Nordic urban areas with a population over 100,000.

Rank	Urban Area	State	Population
1.	Stockholm urban area	Sweden	1,252,020
2.	Copenhagen urban area	Denmark	1,153,615
3.	Oslo urban area	Norway	1,121,020
4.	Helsinki urban area (including Vantaa, Espoo and Kauniainen)	Finland	1,071,599
5.	Gothenburg urban area	Sweden	510,491
6.	Tampere	Finland	292,288
7.	Malmö	Sweden	258,020
8.	Turku	Finland	246,312
9.	Århus	Denmark	237,551
10.	Bergen	Norway	223,593
11.	Reykjavik, Kópavogur, Hafnarfjörður, Garðabær and Seltjarnarnes^[1]	Iceland	195,000
12.	Stavanger and Sandnes	Norway	185,913
13.	Oulu	Finland	171,345
14.	Odense	Denmark	158,163
15.	Trondheim	Norway	156,794
16.	Uppsala	Sweden	128,409
17.	Ålborg	Denmark	121,818
18.	Lahti	Finland	112,187
19.	Västerås	Sweden	107,005
20.	Jyväskylä	Finland	105,760
21.	Fredrikstad and Sarpsborg	Norway	100,458