Biggest Cities of the Swedish Empire on a Map

With the help of a map, can you name the most populous cities within the Swedish Empire with an estimated population of over 2,000 at its peak in 1658 AD?

Population figures are (mostly) based off this dataset by Dr. E. Buringh, La population des villes européennes, 800-1850 by Paul Bairoch and 4000 Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census by Tertius Chandler.

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Population	City
40k	Stockholm
12k	Riga
12k	Stralsund
11k	Stettin
10k	Reval
6k	Malmö
5k	Åbo
4k	Anklam
4k	Dorpat

Population	City
4k	Falun
4k	Gothenburg
4k	Norrköping
4k	Trondheim
4k	Verden
4k	Wismar
3k	Arboga
3k	Gävle
3k	Greifswald

Population	City
3k	Stade
3k	Uppsala
3k	Visby
2k	Esbo
2k	Helsingborg
2k	Jönköping
2k	Kalmar
2k	Lahtis
2k	Landskrona

Population	City
2k	Linköping
2k	Lund
2k	Örebro
2k	Pernau
2k	Uddevalla
2k	Vanda
2k	Västerås
2k	Västervik
2k	Viborg

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4 Comments

Level 94

Nov 26, 2022

Interesting how there's Espoo and Vantaa but not Helsinki. The two were not granted city status until 1970's and even nowadays they're more suburbs of Helsinki than real towns.They probably should be combined as Helsinki. Also Lahti was granted city stated in 1905, I guess it should be Hämeenlinna (formed 1639).

Level 55

Nov 26, 2022

This is all in historical context, meaning that putting these towns/cities under different ones would just be incorrect regardless of them only obtaining "city status" at a later point.

e.g. Greater Helsinki most certainly did not exist in 1658, especially as Helsinki was estimated at about 1,000 inhabitants along with other Finnish cities like Jyväskylä, Oulu and Pori.

Level 57

Oct 18, 2025

Excellent quiz. I didn't expect that much of its biggest cities being in its small German territory.

Level 55

Oct 18, 2025

Thanks! Sweden played a major role in the Thirty Years War that happened shortly before this, leading to cession of said German lands.

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