Uppsala (,
or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of
Uppsala County
Uppsala County ( sv, Uppsala län) is a county or '' län'' on the eastern coast of Sweden, whose capital is the city of Uppsala. It borders the counties of Dalarna, Stockholm, Södermanland, Västmanland, Gävleborg, and the Baltic Sea.
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and the
fourth-largest city in
Sweden, after
Stockholm,
Gothenburg, and
Malmö
Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal popula ...
. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019.
Located north of the capital Stockholm it is also the seat of
Uppsala Municipality. Since 1164, Uppsala has been the