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Censuses of the Swedish poplulation are performed by two independant government agencies: Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyrån, SCB), and the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting, SKL)

This page shows a number of different counts, to give a fairer picture of overall population. Each count has its flaws, such as the urban area count which splits Gothenburg proper into at least 3 different urbanities along rivers; as well as splitting Stockholm into at least two separate urbanities. The division of what is considered a city and what isn't is also political, with longer distances to cross between north to south of the Stockholm municipality than between Malmö and Lund. The differences in size between largest and smallest municipality are ~2,338 times, and between those included in this list of major cities as defined by SKL: ~24,3x, which affects the statistics significantly. In addition the Swedish-Danish border divides the Öresund region, sometimes referred to as the Greater Copenhagen Region, which includes 3,583,842 inhabitants, making it nearly twice the size of the Greater Stockholm Region.