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Norrland consists of the majority of the Swedish landmass at about 60% of the land area, but only has about 12% of the country's population. [3] Its largest city is Umeå, while the other four county seats are Gävle, Härnösand, Östersund and Luleå.
Skellefteå Kraft, largest power company in Skellefteå; Northvolt, lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing company [5] The city will become the home of a massive battery plant made by Northvolt by circa 2023. [6] The largest private employer in Skellefteå is the mining company Boliden AB, with about 1,200 employees.
Övre Norrland is the northernmost region of Sweden and forms part of Sápmi (Lapland). It is the Sweden's largest region by area. It borders Norway, Finland, and the riksområde of Middle Norrland. The most populous cities are Umeå, Luleå, Skellefteå, Piteå and Boden.
Situated on the Ume River, Umeå is the largest locality in Norrland and the thirteenth largest in Sweden, with a wider municipal population of 132,235 inhabitants in the beginning of 2023. [4] When Umeå University was established in 1965, growth accelerated, and the amount of housing has doubled in 30 years from 1980 to 2010. [5]
The Chinese municipality of Chongqing, which is the largest city proper in the world by population, comprises a huge administrative area of 82,403 km 2, around the size of Austria. However, more than 70% of its 30-million population are agricultural workers living in a rural setting .
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.
Of the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden), every country has at least one city above 100,000 inhabitants. List. Municipality
City/municipality Municipality status Country Total area (km 2) Population Population density (per km 2) Sermersooq [1] Municipality Greenland: 575,300 24,148 0.04 Avannaata [1] Municipality Greenland: 522,700 10,920 0.02 Nagqu [2] Prefecture-level City China: 353,010 504,838 1 Hulunbuir [3] Prefecture-level City China: 234,545 2,242,875 10 ...