The Metropolitan Areas of Sweden, "Storstadsområden" ("Greater City Areas" in Swedish), are statistical regions defined by Statistics Sweden. There are three of them, surrounding the three largest cities in Sweden:

• Greater Stockholm (pop.: 1,695,946),
• Greater Gothenburg (pop.: 879,298) and
• Greater Malmö (pop.: 539,190).

All three areas can also be counted to larger urban regions:

• Stockholm-Mälaren Region,
• Gothenburg Region and
• Øresund Region respectively.

These larger regions are political, not statistical regions, formed by municipalities and counties for metropolitan cooperation.

Metropolitan areas | Geography of Sweden | Subdivisions of Sweden