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This is a list of cities in modern Sweden that once enjoyed city privileges, thus were entitled to call themselves town (Swedish: stad, plural städer). The year indicates the year they were established or when they were granted a royal charter. The list does not include towns in Finland established during Swedish rule.

Overview

Legally and administratively, the term stad is not used in Sweden since the municipal reform of 1971, when the municipality (kommun) became the only existing form of local government. Before the reform there were 132 urban centres (133 to 1966) that had the title of stad.

The urban centres of these municipalities are still called stad in daily speech and 14 of the municipalities have chosen to continue to call themselves stad 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 and Västerås Municipality.

The decision to call themselves stad has been taken purely for image and marketing reasons. In legal situations the word kommun (municipality) must be included in the municipality's name and governmental authorities will only refer to them by their legal names.

List

City	Charter
Alingsås	1619
Arboga	1200
Arvika	1911
Askersund	1643
Avesta	1641–1686, 1919
Boden	1919
Bollnäs	1942
Borgholm	1816
Borlänge	1944
Borås	1622
Djursholm	1914
Eksjö	1400
Enköping	1300
Eskilstuna	1659
Eslöv	1911
Fagersta	1944
Falkenberg	1558
Falköping	1200
Falsterbo^[1]	1200
Falun	1651
Filipstad	1611-1694, 1835
Flen	1949
Gothenburg	1619
Gränna	1652
Gävle	1446 (before)
Hagfors	1950
Halmstad	1200
Haparanda	1848
Hedemora	1446 (before)
Helsingborg	1085
Hjo	1400
Hudiksvall	1582
Huskvarna	1911
Härnösand	1585
Hässleholm	1914
Höganäs	1936
Jönköping	1284
Kalmar	1100
Karlshamn	1664
Karlskoga	1940
Karlskrona	1680
Karlstad	1584
Katrineholm	1917
Kiruna	1948
Kramfors	1947
Kristianstad	1622
Kristinehamn	1582–1584, 1642
Kumla	1942
Kungsbacka	1400
Kungälv	1100
Köping	1474
Laholm	1200
Landskrona	1413
Lidingö	1926
Lidköping	1446
Lindesberg	1643
Linköping	1287
Ljungby	1936
Ludvika	1919
Luleå	1621
Lund	0990
Lycksele	1946
Lysekil	1903
Malmö	1250
Mariefred	1605
Mariestad	1583
Marstrand	1200
Mjölby	1922
Motala	1881
Nacka	1949
Nora	1643
Norrköping	1384
Norrtälje	1622
Nybro	1932
Nyköping	1187
Nynäshamn	1946
Nässjö	1914
Oskarshamn	1856
Oxelösund	1950
Piteå	1621
Ronneby	1387–1680, 1882
Sala	1624
Sandviken	1943
Sigtuna	0980
Simrishamn	1300
Skanör^[2]	1200
Skanör med Falsterbo^[3]	1754
Skara	0988
Skellefteå	1845
Skänninge	1200
Skövde	1400
Sollefteå	1917
Solna	1943
Stockholm	1250
Strängnäs	1336
Strömstad	1672
Sundbyberg	1927
Sundsvall	1624
Säffle	1951
Säter	1642
Sävsjö	1947
Söderhamn	1620
Söderköping	1200
Södertälje	1000
Sölvesborg	1445
Tidaholm	1910
Torshälla	1317
Tranås	1919
Trelleborg	1200
Trollhättan	1916
Trosa	1300
Uddevalla	1498
Ulricehamn	1400
Umeå	1622
Uppsala	1286
Vadstena	1400
Varberg	1100
Vaxholm	1652
Vetlanda	1920
Vimmerby	1400
Visby	1000
Vänersborg	1644
Värnamo	1920
Västervik	1200
Västerås	0990
Växjö	1342
Ystad	1200
Åmål	1643
Ängelholm	1516
Örebro	1200
Öregrund	1491
Örnsköldsvik	1894
Östersund	1786
Östhammar	1300

Notes

^ Skanör and Falsterbo were joined together administratively in 1754 by the name Skanör med Falsterbo; they merged into a single urban area in the 1960s, still keeping their separate identities as two towns.

Today

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 of Danderyd Municipality and Visby is the seat of Gotland Municipality.

A number of suburban towns have grown together with neighbours and are nowadays seldom considered as separate towns:

Huskvarna (part of Jönköping)
Mölndal (part of Gothenburg urban area)
Djursholm, Nacka, Solna, Sundbyberg (part of Stockholm urban area)
Lidingö (separated from Stockholm by water, but anyhow often counted to its urban area although according to Statistics Sweden, Lidingö is an urban area of its own)