National Areas of Sweden

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The National Areas of Sweden (Swedish: Riksområden) are 8 second level subdivisions (NUTS-2) of Sweden, created by the European Union for statistical purposes.

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Subdivision

The 8 riksområden (Singular : Riksområde) includes the 21 counties of Sweden.^[1] Only Stockholm (SE01) corresponds simply to the homonymous county.

National Areas					Map
Name	Code	Swedish name	Largest city	Map
Stockholm	SE01	Stockholm	Stockholm
East Middle Sweden	SE02	Östra Mellansverige	Uppsala
South Sweden	SE04	Sydsverige	Malmö
North Middle Sweden	SE06	Norra Mellansverige	Gävle
Middle Norrland	SE07	Mellersta Norrland	Sundsvall
Upper Norrland	SE08	Övre Norrland	Umeå
Småland and the islands	SE09	Småland med Öarna	Jönköping
West Sweden	SE0A	Västsverige	Göteborg

See also

• NUTS of Sweden
• Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS)
• NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union

References

External links

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