List of cities in Sweden

This is a list of cities in modern Sweden that once enjoyed city privileges, thus were entitled to call themselves town (Swedish: stad, plural städer).

The list does not include towns in Finland established during Swedish rule.

The decision to call themselves stad has been taken purely for image and marketing reasons.

In legal situations the word kommun (municipality) must be included in the municipality's name and governmental authorities will only refer to them by their legal names.

Most of the former towns are today urban centres (tätorter) and seats of their municipalities.