AREA AND POPULATION.
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Area and Population.
Sweden was one of the first countries of Europe in which a regular census was taken. The first enumeration took place in 1748, at the suggestion of the Academy of Stockholm, and it was repeated, at first every third year, next, after 1775, every fifth year, which was altered at last into an annual census, continued to the present day.
The population of Sweden amounted on December 31, 1867, according to the official census returns of that date, to 4,195,681, of whom 2,040,589 were men and 2,155,092 women. On the 31st of December, 1869, the total population was 4,158,757, of whom 2,014,530 were men and 2,114,227 women. The decrease of population in the two years from December 31, 1867, to December 31, 1869, arose through emigration. The kingdom had, at the enumeration of 1869, but two towns with more than 50,000 inhabitants, namely, Stockholm, the capital, with 134,650, and Göteborg, with 55,046.
The area and population of Sweden, on the 31st of December, 1869, are shown in the following table : —
Governments (Län.)
Area in geo.
sq. miles
Population,
Dec. 31, 1SG9
Stockholm (City) ......
134,650
Stockholm (Rural district)
137
131,405
Upsala
97
99,598
Södermanland
118
135,286
Östergötland
200
254,014
Jönköping .
202
54,080
Kronoborg .
178
279,537
Calmar
200
231,802
Gotland
58
242,892
Blekinge
53
126.661
Christianstad
114
159,619
Malmöhus .
84
313,430
Halland
89
233,213
Göteborg and Bohus
89
220,846
Elfsborg
237
127,531
Skaraborg .
156
181,767
Wermland .
327
261,522
Örebro
153
166,424
Westmanland
125
113,155
Kopparberg .
577
175,927
Gefleborg
356
1 15,834
1 Wester Norrland .
447
132,658
Jemtland
900
70,372
Westerbotten
1,382
90,938
Norrbotten ....
1,554
75,596
Lapland (estimated)
Total .
4,705
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8,026
4,158,757
English square miles
168,042
