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Municipality Country Population Area (km 2) Density (/km 2) ; Stockholm Sweden 990,261 [1]: 187.16 [2]: 5,291 Oslo Norway 716,272 [3]: 426.4 [4]: 1,680 Helsinki Finland 684,589 [5]: 214.42 [6]
The Stockholm urban area (in blue), the largest urban area in the Nordic countries. The area includes land both inside and outside of the municipality of Stockholm. This is a list of urban areas in the Nordic countries by population.
Rail transport in Sweden uses a network of 10,912 kilometres (6,780 mi), the 24th largest in the world. [3] Construction of the first railway line in Sweden began in 1855. . The major operator of passenger trains has traditionally been the state-owned SJ, though today around 70% of all rail traffic consists of subsidised local and regional trains for which the regional public transport ...
Urban rail transport in Denmark currently consists of one metro system in Copenhagen, two light rail systems in Aarhus and Odense and two commuter rail systems, the S-Train in Copenhagen and the Aalborg Commuter Rail. The three largest cities of Copenhagen, Aarhus and Odense had tram networks in the 19th and 20th century, with the last tram ...
Had short industrial lines, see Rail transport in Iceland for proposals 352 Jordan: Had passenger and freight lines, see Rail transport in Jordan: 400 Kiribati: Had industrial lines 296 Lebanon: Had from 1890 until 1970 (future projects to build a railway from Tyr to Tripoli) 422 Libya
The Øresund Region is an important hub for economic activity in Scandinavia. [6] In 2007, almost 25 million people traveled over the Øresund Bridge: 15.2 million by car and bus, and 9.6 million by train. By 2009, the figure had risen to a total of 35.6 million travellers by car, coach, train or ferry. [7]
break-of-gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)/ 1,524 mm (5 ft) – other protection system. All freight has to be reloaded. No passenger traffic by rail. Denmark at Öresund bridge. same gauge – voltage change 15kVAC/25kVAC – other protection system. Only custom made locomotives or EMUs can cross the border.
Oslo's system, as the only one, started with horse cars, the others were electrified from the beginning. Electric cars were introduced in Oslo in 1894 and the last horse car operated in 1900. Bergen closed down its first generation system between 1944 and 1965, but (re-)introduced light rail transit (LRT) in 2006.