Nordic & Baltic urban map showcase

[kjetilab]

This is a project intended to showcase the urban footprint of the bigger urban areas in the Nordic and Baltic region. This tread is heavily inspired by the Urban Area Map Showcase on the Citytalk and Urban Issues forum. A few cities from our region has been posted there already (Spotila's maps are more accurate and better than mine IMO).

Note 1:
All the maps in this tread is made to the same zoom level (50km eye altitude +/- a few hundred metres).

Note 2:
The maps does not give any indication to the density of an urban area, and its accuracy may vary with my ability to interpret the satelite images provied by Google Earth (Forest land vs. parks/ golf courses etc.). Corrections are welcome.

Note 3:
All population figures are collected from reliable official sources (e.g. not Wikipedia). Metro population numbers will not be provided.

Note 4:
This tread is allowed on the strict condition of no City vs. City talk. Also, if you would like to post your own maps, please provide a link rather than posting in the tread.

Population number sources:

Norway:
SSB - Tettsteder, Folkemengde og areal, 2011
SSB - Folkemengde og areal i tettsteder, 2011

Sweden:
SCB - Folkmängd i riket, 2010
SCB - Tätortar 2010

Denmark:
DST - Byoppgørelsen 2011

Iceland:
http://www.statice.is

Finland:
Statistikcentralen (2005 numbers)

Latvia:
Centralas Statistikas parvaldes datu bazes

Lithuania:
Lietuvos statistikos departamentas

Cities so far:
Arendal, Bergen, Drammen, Daugavpils, Esbjerg, Gävle, Göteborg, Halmstad, Haparanda/Tornio - Kemi, Kalmar, Karlstad, Kristiansand, København, Lahti, Mjøsregionen, Norrköping, Odense, Oslo, Pori, Reykavik, Riga, Stavanger - Sandnes, Tallinn, Torshavn, Trekanten region, Turku, Västerås, Vilnius, Ålborg

[kjetilab]

Let's start off with the biggest city on the Danish west coast

Esbjerg
City population: 71.576


Norrköping
City population: 87.247
Municipality population: 130.050

[kjetilab]

Arendal - Grimstad
Arendal city population: 33.303
Arendal municipality population: 42.229
Arendal - Grimstad combined population: 63.052


Halmstad
Halmstad city population: 58.577
Halmstad municipality population: 91.800

[Ingenioren]

Love this type of tread

[Galro]

Originally Posted by Ingenioren

Love this type of tread

There is one large, international here if you haven't already seen it:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1437819

[Ingenioren]

It's in my sub. aswell!

[kjetilab]

Originally Posted by Ingenioren

Love this type of tread

So do I. That's why I started this tread

[kjetilab]

Just one map for today

Bergen
City population: 235.046
Municipality population: 260.392

[kjetilab]

Turku
City population: N/A (source pending)

[SuomiPrkl!!]

Turku city population is ~180 000...

[Galro]

Not the urban population (=the real, modern city).

[vilniusguide]

Interesting video. Suburbanisation in Lithuania 1990-2007



Will wait for the maps

[kjetilab]

Originally Posted by SuomiPrkl!!

Turku city population is ~180 000...

In the first post, I've linked to the source I used, but this is 2005 figures. If you could provide me with a better and more recent source I would appreciate it

[SuomiPrkl!!]

Originally Posted by kjetilab

In the first post, I've linked to the source I used, but this is 2005 figures. If you could provide me with a better and more recent source I would appreciate it

246 000 is number of ppl in Åbo centraltätort. In finnish its Turun keskustaajama and in english Turku urban area. Turku as a city has 180k ppl.

Same in Helsinki. Helsingfors centraltätort population(1 000 000+) is urban area. There is a many cities in that number like Espoo, Vantaa etc.

Many ppl say that Espoo and Vantaa are like suburbs of Helsinki but they have city status and their own goverments.

[kjetilab]

I guess it was the term "centraltätort" which confused me into beliving those numbers were for the continuous built up area. It seemed a little high. But a specific link to Statistikcentralen or similar would be nice.

Btw, by the term "city population" I refer to the tettsted/tätort population. Regardsless of administrative borders.

[frank_hki]

As of 31 January 2011, Turku’s population was 177,430, which makes it the fifth largest city in Finland by population. As of 31 August 2008 there were 303,492 inhabitants living in the Turku sub-region, which makes it the third largest urban area in Finland after the Greater Helsinki area and Tampere sub-region.

Source: Wikipedia...

ps the urban population seems to be 246,312

[kjetilab]

Third largest city in Denmark:

Odense
City population: 167.615

[Swede]

Originally Posted by SuomiPrkl!!

Many ppl say that Espoo and Vantaa are like suburbs of Helsinki but they have city status and their own goverments.

That's the definition of suburb in american English. An outlying part of an urban area with it's own government (possibly with city-status).

Stockholm has a few suburbs that had City status before the municipal reform (now all are the same typ, some just call themselves City of ...).

[kjetilab]

Since there was posted a very nice aerial of this town, todays city is...

Karlstad
City population: 61.685
Municipality population: 85.753

[kjetilab]

Border area between Sweden and Finland

Haparanda/Tornio - Kemi


Västerås
City population: 110.887
Municipality population: 137.207