[Peer]

Tel Aviv is probarbly larger than Stockholm though.

The Swedish definition of "metropolitan" area is skewed, it consists of several cities and according to wikipedia its 6,519 km2 that is compared to Tel Avivs metropolian area of 1,516 km2. Still Tel Avivs has a metropolitan population of 3.4 million people compared to Stockholm's 2.1 million.

[adsr]

Stockholm is located on a group of islands on the other hand which impacts the surface area.

[dbaupp]

Just for others' reference, the metropolitan area of Stockholm[0] is the whole of the Stockholm county.

Just looking at the map, a slightly better/more conventional measure of Stockholm might be Stockholm municipality[1] + Huddinge, Sundbyberg and Solna, which gives an area of 350 km2 and a population of about 1.1 million.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Municipality

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I would really only call the city centre [0] an "urban area" i.e. somewhere you could find a decent bar etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_City_Centre

[ttrt]

6.5k km2 is actually more than 1/4 of Israel's land area (20,770/22,072 km)