Random city generator Random city in Sweden
208 towns in 21 counties
Sweden has fewer large towns than most countries on the site, so its list goes lower: 208 places of 5,000 people or more, from GeoNames. Stockholm alone passes a million, Gothenburg and Malmö follow, and 11 places reach 100,000, among them Uppsala, Linköping, Örebro and Umeå. 28 count as big cities here, with 50,000 or more. 79 sit under 10,000, down to Sunne in Värmland at just over 5,000.
Most Swedes live in the south. Skåne has 35 places, Västra Götaland around Gothenburg 30 and Stockholm County 27, so together they hold nearly half the list. The north is wide and empty: Västerbotten has three towns, Jämtland only Östersund and Gotland only Visby. Use Region to keep the draw inside one of the 21 counties, which Swedes call län.
Spelling follows Swedish, with å, ä and ö intact: Malmö, Västerås, Jönköping. Gothenburg is the single exception shown in English, so whatever you draw can be typed straight into a map, a train timetable or a hotel search.
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Getting a Swedish town at random
- Tap Draw a city and a town appears with its county and number of inhabitants.
- Want only Dalarna, or only places above 50,000? Set it under Filters and watch the count on the button shrink.
- Planning a road trip or a geography lesson? Raise How many to get up to ten towns in one go, then use Copy in History to paste them elsewhere.
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Sweden draw: common questions
What does län mean?
It is the Swedish word for county. There are 21, from Skåne in the far south to Norrbotten by the Finnish border, each run from its own seat such as Malmö or Luleå. Region lists all of them by their English names.
Why does Sweden start at 5,000 people?
With a cut at 10,000, as for most other countries here, Sweden would keep only 129 towns and the north would almost vanish. From 5,000 it also keeps small towns such as Kalix in Norrbotten, Lycksele in Västerbotten and Sunne in Värmland.
Are the numbers up to date?
They are GeoNames figures, which can trail Statistics Sweden by a few years. Some cover a whole built-up area rather than the centre, so a suburb such as Sollentuna near Stockholm can look larger than you expect.
Is there a Swedish version?
Yes: pick Svenska in the language menu and you get a page for random towns in Sweden written in Swedish, drawing from the same 208 places.
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