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You are right. I am wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_urban_area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_urban_area I find ~4200 on Wikipedia but

• wk_end 5y ago
  FWIW, the main Wikipedia page on Stockholm lists a “Density” of ~5200, an “Urban Density” of ~4200 and a “Metro Density” of ~400. I admittedly don’t know which is the most useful one here. Population density metrics are tricky. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm And not to be too scold-y, but 400 people per sq km is the population density of small middle-American towns. I know Stockholm isn’t the biggest city by any means, but it’s still a national capital and a cosmopolitan old-world city; a moment of reflection tells you it’s gotta be denser than, like, Little Falls, Minnesota.
  • alecst 5y ago
    Definitely a learning moment for me. Means that the question of Sweden may not be so simple. That said, most of the population doesn’t live in Stockholm, so that probably was not the right idea to start to begin with. As another commenter pointed out, Sweden did worse than its neighbors who have a similar population distribution, and I think that's the more interesting take.