Handen (also known as Haninge Centrum) is a part of

Metropolitan Stockholm Sweden has three metropolitan areas consisting of the areas surrounding the three largest cities, Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. The statistics have been retrieved from Statistics Sweden and the statistics released on 10 November 2014. The off ...

and the seat of

Haninge Municipality Haninge Municipality () is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in Handen, a part of the Stockholm urban area. Haninge Municipality was formed in 1971 when ''Västerhaninge'' and ''Österhaninge'' wer ...

(Haninge Kommun) in Stockholm County in eastern

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. Handen had around 15 092 inhabitants in 2018. Geographically and statistically Handen is a part of the

Stockholm urban area The Stockholm urban area () is the largest and most populous of the statistical localities or urban areas in Sweden. It has no administrative function of its own, but constitutes a continuous built-up area, which extends into 11 municipalities in ...

. Handen has a station on the

Stockholm commuter rail Stockholm commuter rail () is the commuter rail system in Stockholm County, Sweden. The system is an important part of the public transport in Stockholm, and is controlled by Storstockholms Lokaltrafik. The tracks are state-owned and administere ...

system and a large

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serving great areas of

Södertörn Södertörn is a roughly triangular peninsula and artificial island in eastern Södermanland, Sweden, with an area of 1,207 km² and is bordered by: *Lake Mälaren, the Hammarby Canal and the inlet of Saltsjön (a part of the Baltic Sea) t ...

. Handen is where the municipality seat of

Haninge Haninge Municipality () is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in Handen, a part of the Stockholm urban area. Haninge Municipality was formed in 1971 when ''Västerhaninge'' and ''Österhaninge'' were ...

is located.

's major shopping center, Haninge Centrum, and the joint campus of KTH and Södertörns Högskola are also located here. The

Övre Rudasjön Övre Rudasjön (Swedish language, Swedish for "Upper Crucian carp Lake"), or Övre Rudan for short, is a lake in Haninge Municipality, 18 km (11 mi) south of central Stockholm, Sweden. Forming part of the Tyresån Lake System, its major ...

lake is located just west of the commercial center.

References

Neighbourhoods of Stockholm Municipal seats of Stockholm County Swedish municipal seats Populated places in Haninge Municipality {{Stockholm-geo-stub