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This is a list ofcities in modern Sweden that once enjoyedcity privileges, thus were entitled to call themselvestown (Swedish:stad, pluralstäder). The year indicates the year they were established or when they were granted aroyal charter. The list does not includetowns in Finland established during Swedish rule.
Legally and administratively, the termstad is not used in Sweden since the municipal reform of 1971, when themunicipality (kommun) became the only existing form of local government. Before the reform there were 132 urban centres (133 to 1966) that had the title ofstad.
The urban centres of these municipalities are still calledstad in daily speech and 14 of the municipalities have chosen to continue to call themselvesstad in marketing situations, although several of them now encompass large rural areas following the merger of Swedish municipalities in the 1970s and 1980s. These 14 are:Borås Municipality,Gothenburg Municipality,Haparanda Municipality,Helsingborg Municipality,Landskrona Municipality,Lidingö Municipality,Malmö Municipality,Mölndal Municipality,Solna Municipality,Stockholm Municipality,Sundbyberg Municipality,Trollhättan Municipality,Vaxholm Municipality andVästerås Municipality.
The decision to call themselvesstad has been taken purely for image and marketing reasons. In legal situations the wordkommun (municipality) must be included in the municipality's name and governmental authorities will only refer to them by their legal names.
Most of the former towns are today urban centres (tätorter) and seats of their municipalities. Two seats/former towns and municipalities have a different name:Djursholm is the seat ofDanderyd Municipality andVisby is the seat ofGotland Municipality.
A number of suburban towns have grown together with neighbours and are nowadays seldom considered as separate towns:
The following are not seats of their municipalities:
