This is a list of the most populous municipalities in the Nordic countries, with only municipalities of at least 100,000 inhabitants. Of the five Nordic countries ( Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden), every country has at least one city above 100,000 inhabitants.
Municipality | Country | Population | Area (km2) |
Density (/km2) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Stockholm | ![]() |
990,261 [1] | 187.16 [2] | 5,291 |
Oslo | ![]() |
716,272 [3] | 426.4 [4] | 1,680 |
Helsinki | ![]() |
674,500 [5] | 214.42 [6] | 3,148 |
Copenhagen | ![]() |
653,664 [7] | 86.4 [8] | 7,566 |
Gothenburg | ![]() |
604,325 [1] | 447.76 [2] | 1,350 |
Malmö | ![]() |
361,974 [1] | 156.87 [2] | 2,307 |
Aarhus | ![]() |
361,544 [7] | 467.70 [8] | 773 |
Espoo | ![]() |
314,024 [5] | 312.35 [6] | 1,006 |
Bergen | ![]() |
291,189 [3] | 445.14 [4] | 654 |
Tampere | ![]() |
255,050 [5] | 524.89 [6] | 486 |
Vantaa | ![]() |
247,443 [5] | 238.38 [6] | 1,038 |
Uppsala | ![]() |
245,663 [1] | 2,182.80 [2] | 113 |
Aalborg | ![]() |
222,571 [7] | 1,137.30 [8] | 196 |
Oulu | ![]() |
214,633 [5] | 2,972.44 [6] | 72 |
Trondheim | ![]() |
214,093 [3] | 323.01 [4] | 663 |
Odense | ![]() |
207,762 [7] | 305.60 [8] | 680 |
Turku | ![]() |
201,863 [5] | 245.63 [6] | 822 |
Linköping | ![]() |
167,578 [1] | 1,427.44 [2] | 117 |
Västerås | ![]() |
159,663 [1] | 957.89 [2] | 167 |
Örebro | ![]() |
159,437 [1] | 1,373.15 [2] | 116 |
Helsingborg | ![]() |
151,403 [1] | 344.01 [2] | 440 |
Stavanger | ![]() |
148,682 [3] | 68.01 [4] | 2,186 |
Jyväskylä | ![]() |
147,746 [5] | 1,171.03 [6] | 126 |
Jönköping | ![]() |
146,330 [1] | 1,480.36 [2] | 99 |
Norrköping | ![]() |
145,222 [1] | 1,495.05 [2] | 97 |
Reykjavík | ![]() |
142,740 [9] | 274.00 [10] | 521 |
Umeå | ![]() |
133,112 [1] | 2,316.61 [2] | 57 |
Bærum | ![]() |
130,772 [3] | 189.28 [4] | 691 |
Lund | ![]() |
130,506 [1] | 427.23 [11] | 305 |
Kuopio | ![]() |
124,021 [5] | 3,241.74 [6] | 38 |
Vejle | ![]() |
120,949 [7] | 1,062.00 [8] | 114 |
Lahti | ![]() |
120,693 [5] | 459.5 [6] | 263 |
Kristiansand | ![]() |
116,735 [3] | 428.21 [4] | 273 |
Esbjerg | ![]() |
115,758 [7] | 794.50 [8] | 146 |
Borås | ![]() |
114,747 [1] | 909.901 [2] | 126 |
Huddinge | ![]() |
114,118 [1] | 131.01 [12] | 871 |
Nacka | ![]() |
110,529 [1] | 95.12 [2] | 1162 |
Eskilstuna | ![]() |
107,713 [1] | 1,250.49 [2] | 86 |
Halmstad | ![]() |
105,838 [1] | 1014.13 [2] | 104 |
Frederiksberg | ![]() |
104,664 [7] | 8.70 [8] | 12,030 |
Drammen | ![]() |
104,109 [3] | 135 [4] | 771 |
Gävle | ![]() |
103,581 [1] | 1,613.37 [2] | 64 |
Södertälje | ![]() |
102,525 [1] | 525.15 [2] | 195 |
1 The statistics only include matriculated areas covered by the survey, thus most lakes and all seawater is excluded.