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Historically, the city status in Sweden , or '' Stad '', was granted through a Royal Charter . In 1971 , the term was legally abolished in favour of the Municipalities , or '' Kommuner ''. Before the latest Municipal reform in 1971, the term '' City '' was reserved for towns that had received a Royal Charter . Apart from being of a certain size, there were several requirements that a town needed to fulfil to be granted city charter, although the criteria tended to vary throughout the centuries, and were often at the discretion of the Riksdag or the monarch. For example, when Oskarshamn (in south-eastern Sweden) applied for a charter during the early 19th century, it was required to fund and build a council hall and a prison, among other things. Before a city became chartered it usually had previously been given the status of '' Köping '' (merchant town). Exceptions would be when a city was founded under Royal supervision, in which case the city would often bear the name of the monarch, such as Kristianstad or Karlskrona (named after kings Christian IV Of Denmark and Karl IX Of Sweden ). History At the end of the Medieval age, circa 1450 , Sweden (excluding Finland or '' Ostland '') had 41 chartered cities. By around 1650 there were 60. With the incorporation of the southern Scanian Lands in 1658 , the number reached 81. The number was 103 by 1917 . By the time of the municipal reform of 1971 , a total of 134 towns had held the privilege. The cities with a population exceeding 15,000 in the year 1900 were 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica , article ''Sweden'' :
After the reform, the cities and all other forms of municipalities were designated as "kommun" Municipalities . Some Swedish municipalities use the name ''city'' in some instances. The municipalities which use this term are Stockholm, Gothenburg, Helsingborg, Haparanda , Vaxholm , Västerås , Borås, Lidingö and Mölndal . TODAY Formally, the term "city" has been discontinued. In daily speech, however, the term "city" (. Naturally complications arise when a municipality decides to call itself "city", when the "city" only refers to the urban area in daily speech. Municpalities, which derive their names from former cities, sometimes display a wall as a Compartment on its Shield , here exemplified by Karlskrona . REFERENCES SEE ALSO
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