> Stockholm has 2.34 million inhabitants. (Stockholm in this context is always stockholm area, not the city). I agree, counting only Stockholm city isn't reaso

> Stockholm has 2.34 million inhabitants. (Stockholm in this context is always stockholm area, not the city). I agree, counting only Stockholm city isn't reasonable. But I've found the 'Metropolitan Stockholm' number is seldom used as well, but looking at the definitions it should be more common. What is more commonly used is the number for the Stockholm urban area (I'll link the Swedish wiki article since it contains a lot more data, https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_(tätort) https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_(tätort) ). It's interesting to compare the metropolitan areas. In Stockholm is stretches so far that it includes areas that feed to (and somewhat off) some of the other large cities (mostly Uppsala I guess), but in Skåne the metropolitan area only covers a few municipalities although commuting by car is more commonplace and there seems to be a lot more commuting by train from Helsingborg and Kristianstad to Malmö (it's also extremely handy by train) than from Uppsala to Stockolm (no hard numbers, but I commuted Uppsala -> Stockholm for five years and Helsingborg -> Malmö for a while). So it does make more sense to use the 'Greater' areas for all the major cities.