List of the most populous municipalities in the Nordic countries

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.

List

Municipality Country Population Area(km2) Density(/km2) Stockholm 999,713Statistics Sweden - Official population 1 November 2023 187.16SCB Statistics Sweden - Official Municipality Land Area for 2013 (retrieved on February 24, 2014) only available in Swedish 5,291 Oslo 729,799 426.4The Norwegian Mapping Authority - Official Municipality Land Area for 2014 only available in Norwegian 1,680 Helsinki 696,371 214.42NLS National Land Survey of Finland - Official Municipality Land Area for 2023 only available in Finnish and Swedish 3,148 Copenhagen 653,664Statistics Denmark - Official Population Statistics for 1 January 2023 (retrieved on 4 February 2024) 86.4Statistics Denmark - Official Municipality Land Area for 20131 7,566 Gothenburg 604,325 447.76 1,350 Malmö 361,974 156.87 2,307 Espoo 312.35 1,006 Aarhus 301,049 467.70 773 Bergen 295,426Statistics Norway - Population at the end of the third quarter 2023 (30 September 2023) 445.14 654 Tampere 524.89 486 Vantaa 238.38 1,038 Uppsala 245,663 2,182.80 113 Aalborg 222,571 1,137.30 196 Trondheim 219,152 323.01 663 Oulu 2,972.44 72 Odense 207,762 305.60 680 Turku 245.63 822 Linköping 167,578 1,427.44 117 Västerås 159,663 957.89 167 Örebro 159,437 1,373.15 116 Stavanger 151,757 68.01 2,186 Helsingborg 151,403 344.01 440 Jyväskylä 1,171.03 126 Jönköping 146,330 1,480.36 99 Norrköping 145,222 1,495.05 97 Reykjavík 142,740Statistics Iceland - Official Population Statistics for Q3-2023 (retrieved on 4 February 2024) 274.00National Land Survey of Iceland - Official Municipality Land Area on January 1, 2011 521 Umeå 133,112 2,316.61 57 Bærum 130,772 189.28 691 Lund 130,506 427.23 305 Kuopio 3,241.74 38 Vejle 120,949 1,062.00 114 Lahti 459.5 263 Kristiansand 116,735 428.21 273 Esbjerg 115,758 794.50 146 Borås 114,747 909.901 126 Huddinge 114,118 131.01 871 Nacka 110,529 95.12 1162 Eskilstuna 107,713 1,250.49 86 Halmstad 105,838 1014.13 104 Frederiksberg 104,664 8.70 12,030 Drammen 104,109 135 771 Gävle 103,581 1,613.37 64 Södertälje 102,525 525.15 195

See also List of urban areas in the Nordic countries List of metropolitan areas in Sweden

References

1 The statistics only include matriculated areas covered by the survey, thus most lakes and all seawater is excluded.