Talk:List of urban areas in Norway by population

Wrong figures

These numbers are completely wrong —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 139.98.3.23 (talk • contribs) 2006-01-13 08:24:35.

They are sourced from Statistics Norway: http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/02/01/10/beftett_en/tab-2005-06-03-01-en.html wangi 09:28, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Well there is general agreement that the third largest city is Trondheim, why is Sandnes included in the numbers from Stavanger? Se also this link for more comprahensible info: http://www.ssb.no/beftett/tab-2005-06-03-02.html --Njård 08:39, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

I guess Sandnes is included in Stavanger because they're "growing together". But I think it should be two entries, not one. As it says on the SSB-page, Sandnes (town) has 44 122 inhabitants and Stavanger 111 861. The link you mention counts the whole municipality, not only the town.. --torstein 21:02, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

It's quite obvious that the name of this lists is lying.. This is nothing but a list of the inhabitants in selected areas and not the cities themselves! New list or numbers will be apreciated..

Here one has to be careful to not mix two different things. A commune is defined to be an area within specific administrative borders. Trondheim has the third biggest population of the communes in Norway, and Stavanger has the fourth biggest. A conurbation in Norway is defined to be a continuous populated area where maximum 50 meters separate the houses. In this sense, Stavanger is Norway’s third largest city and Trondheim is the fourth largest. Sandnes is included in Stavanger. Most of (but not all of) the communes of Oslo, Bærum, Asker and several other communes are included in Oslo. Cato from Oslo.

How did Oslo loose 300,000 people in one year? That's what the list shows. Theres something clearly wrong here. -AndyBQ 00:07, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

How come a Norwegian municipality and a city by the same name have two different figures for population? If one lives in City A, one also lives the municipality corresponding to City A. If one does not live in the municipality of City A, one does not live in City A either! Then one live in a community ADJACENT to City A. This is a ridiculous list! If you live in e.g. Westchester, NY, you do not live in New York City no matter how close it is! Boston has only 600,000 people, whereas the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area has got som 2-3 million. But the majority of these do not live in Boston (although they may say so for referrence purposes), they live in Watertown, Brooklin, Medford etc.--Sparviere 17:02, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Talk to Statistics Norway: http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/02/01/10/beftett_en/tab-2005-06-03-01-en.html - it's their stats. And they're the offical statistics agency in Norway...

Or consider another example, the City of London has a population of around 9000, however London has a population of 7 million / 14 million depending on where you draw the line.../wangi 20:46, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree. The figures are close to useless. Statistics Norway doesn't do its job well. Punkmorten 15:48, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

This article claims that it "is a list of cities in Norway by population". It is not, it is a list of the largest continously built-up areas in Norway by population (norwegian: Tettsted). The article also says that there are no city limits in Norway, this is not correct. If a Norwegian municipality has a population of 5000 or more it can grant itself city status. The municipalitiy's borders will then also be the borders of the city. This is true even if the municipality has a large rural area surrounding the urban center, which is the case for most Norwegian cities (Oslo is one of few exceptions). A proper "list of cities in Norway by population" should consist of municipalities that have grantet themselves city status, ranked by total population within the municipality borders. If the continously built-up area stretches beyond the borders, this area beyond the border should not be included. In this this list the ranking would be Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger, Kristiansand (or arguably Bærum, Sandvika has granted itself city status) and so on, which is the most common ranking in Norway. There is also a third way of composing a list like this, using this method one would include only the population of the urban areas within the municipality/city borders (same as the method mentioned before, but without rural population). I've seen this method beeing used, but it is very rare. 81.191.199.176 18:52, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

The page could be moved to List of urban areas in Norway by population, I suppose, but: Is Langangen a part of the city of Porsgrunn? Is Høvringen located in the city of Otta? Hmmm... No, this is not true. Allow me to refer to the latest (AFAIK) settlement to receive city status (bystatus) in Norway, Drøbak. According to the local newspaper [1] the districts Heer, Skorkeberg, Ullerud, Dyrløkke and Sogsti would be regarded a part of the city, as well as the old Drøbak town and "Kaholmene with Oscarsborg". This encompasses 90 % of the population in Frogn, not 100 %. The article does mention the existence of city limits though... Punkmorten 20:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

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Name

The name in English should be List of metropolitan areas in Norway by population, as per List of metropolitan areas by population for example. - Gilliam 08:46, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

There's a difference between an urban area and a metropolitan area.--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 00:42, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Kristiansund census

Kristiansund have merged with Frei municipality, so the numberof inhabitants are outdated. The correct number of inhabitants should be 22 661 [2] Could someone fix that? thx =) —Preceding unsigned comment added by KS-U92 (talk • contribs)

Same municipality, different urban area. [3]. This list is about urban areas. Punkmorten (talk) 07:53, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Made-up statistics

Please do not make up statistics. I had to correct the number for Oslo - it was higher than it should have been because someone felt the need to calculate their own number based on the entire populations of the municipalities in the urban area. That's not what this statistic is! Each of the municipalities has some populated areas that are not connected to the urban area, and the populations of those areas are not included in those areas. Using the entire populations of the municipalities is therefore unacceptable. The list should be identical to this list until it is updated by SSB. --Aqwis (talk) 09:53, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

I agree, the 97K figure for Kristiansand is much more than the 60K figure supported by SSB. An urban area is not a municipality.--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 00:48, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Go to

Template talk:Most populous urban areas of Norway to see my recommendation for updating this list.--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 00:42, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

To update this list,

go to [4] “Statistisk sentralbyrå: Statistics Norway: Befolkning og areal i tettsteder” [2017.1.1].--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 07:47, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Table #4 below, lists the largest several urban areas in Norway as (Number right after name gives where to find it, by looking at the number in the rightmost column in said list. Second number is of course population. I listed all those places with over 15,000 residents.):

1. Oslo (0801): 988,873

2. Bergen (5001): 254,235

3. Stavanger/Sandnes (4522): 220,943

4. Trondheim (6501): 180,557

5. Drammen (2003): 116,446

6. Fredrikstad/Sarpsborg (0022): 111,267

7. Porsgrunn/Skien (3005): 92,753

8. Kristiansand (4002): 61,536

9. Ålesund (6025): 52,163

10. Tønsberg (2521): 51,571

11. Moss (0031): 46,618

12. Haugesund (4532): 44,830

13. Sandefjord (2531): 43,595

14. Arendal (3511): 43,084

15. Bodø (7501): 40,705

16. Tromsø (8011): 38,980

17. Hamar (1001): 27,324

18. Halden (0001): 25,300

19. Larvik (2541): 24,208

20. Askøy (5201): 23,194

21. Kongsberg (2015): 21,890

22. Harstad (8003): 20,953

23. Molde (6001): 20,863

24. Lillehammer (1501): 20,400

25. Horten (2511): 20,371

26. Gjøvik (1511): 20,112

27. Ski (0512): 19,357

28. Mo i Rana (7631): 18,685

29. Kristiansund (6011): 18,412

30. Jessheim (0659): 17,687

31. Korsvik (4009): 17,464

32. Tromsdalen (8261): 16,787

33. Hønefoss (2033): 15,662

34. Alta (8542): 15,094--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 09:11, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

I of course meant the table on aforementioned Statistics Norway website, not here on Wikipedia. See also List of municipalities of Norway.--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 09:13, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Wrong population numbers

Use SSB census data instead. Tromsø is about twice the size. 193.71.141.189 (talk) 17:52, 8 January 2023 (UTC)