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Gothenburg is the birthplace of football in Sweden as the first football match in Sweden was played there in 1892. [140] The city's three major football clubs, IFK Göteborg , Örgryte IS , and GAIS [ 141 ] share a total of 34 Swedish championships between them. [ 142 ]
The population exceeded 10 million for the first time on Friday, 20 January 2017. [2] [3] The three largest cities are Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. Sweden's population has become much more ethnically, religiously and linguistically diverse over the past 70 years as a result of immigration.
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: 683,669 [5] 214.42 [6] 3,148 Copenhagen Denmark: 653,664 [7] 86.4 [8] 7,566 Gothenburg Sweden: 604,325 [1] 447.76 [2] 1,350 Malmö Sweden: 361,974 [1] 156.87 [2] 2,307 Aarhus Denmark: 361,544 [7] 467. ...
This is a list of urban areas in the Nordic countries by population. Urban areas in the Nordic countries are measured at national level, independently by each country's statistical office. Statistics Sweden uses the term tätort (urban settlement), Statistics Finland also uses tätort in Swedish and taajama in Finnish, Statistics Denmark uses ...
Gothenburg Municipality (Göteborgs kommun or Göteborgs stad) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Gothenburg . When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863 the City of Gothenburg, founded and chartered in 1621, became a city municipality with an elected ...
The county is the second most populous of Sweden's counties and it comprises 49 municipalities (kommuner). Its population of 1,616,000 amounts to 17% of Sweden's population. [needs update] The formal capital and seat of the governor of Västra Götaland County is Gothenburg.
As of 2020, the percentage of inhabitants with a foreign background in Sweden had risen to 25.9 percent In 2020, population growth in Sweden was primarily driven by people with a foreign background, 98.8 percent (51,073 people) and persons with a Swedish background accounted for 1.2 percent (633 persons) of the population increase. [8]
The official term used by Statistics Sweden is "locality" (Swedish: tätort) instead of "urban area" and they are defined as having a minimum of 200 inhabitants. The total population of the localities was 8,016,000 in 2010, which made up 85% of the population of the whole country. [1] The urban areas made up 1.3% of the land area of the whole ...