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Stockholm is actually the only big, dense, international city in the Nordic countries. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_populated_municipalit
by aga98mtl 6y ago
Stockholm is actually the only big, dense, international city in the Nordic countries. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_populated_municipalities_in_the_Nordic_countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_populated_mun...
The disease likes dense urban areas with a lot of poor immigrants working in big care homes. Comparing countries is not really "fair". In Canada, Montreal got hit hard. In the USA, NYC, Philadelphia and Boston got it hard. It's a urban centric disease. So yes it's fair to compare to Sweden to Germany, France, UK and Belgium.
- HarryHirsch 6y agoSweden has 11 million citizens, 2.5 millions in Stockholm metropolitan area. Norway has 5 million people, 1.8 millions living in Oslo metropolitan area. Finland has 5.5 million citizens, 1.7 millions living in Greater Helsinki. Lots of countryside elsewhere. The Nordic countries are quite comparable.
- gridlockd 6y agoPerhaps we should also be looking at population density: Stockholm: 11,802/sqm Oslo: 4,268/sqm Helsinki: 3,670/sqm
- HarryHirsch 6y agoSure, but covid spreads during social events, it's schools, bars, concerts, churches, and you find more of that in urban aggregations than in the flat countryside.
- SomeoneFromCA 6y agoI do not where you got these numbers from. Wikipedia: Helsinki: 3,070.08/km2 (7,951.5/sq mi)
- gridlockd 6y agoI just picked the first google result, which happens to be metric, so I mixed that up.
- makomk 6y agoIt looks like the first Google result is for the Capital Region (1.1 million people, 1418 per squqare km, 3670 per sq mile). The stat in the comment you're replying to is for Helsinki proper which only has 600,000 or so residents, and Greater Helsinki is less dense than any of these. No matter how you slice the figures, Stockholm seems to be a bigger denser city than Helsinki or Oslo.