tätort

See also: Tatort

Swedish

Etymology

tät (“dense”) +‎ ort (“[inhabited] community or place”)

Noun

tätort c

1. A built-up area (i.e. a city, town or village), (per definition in the Nordic countries a locality with at least 200 inhabitants and up to 200 metres (Norway: 50 m) between the buildings; if two buildings cannot be connected by a route along which buildings are at most 200 metres away from each other, they are not located in the same locality)

   Nordens största tätort är Stockholm, med omkring en och en halv miljon invånare.

   The Nordic countries' largest built-up area is Stockholm, with around one and a half million inhabitants.

Declension

Declension of tätort

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	tätort	tätorts
	definite	tätorten	tätortens
plural	indefinite	tätorter	tätorters
	definite	tätorterna	tätorternas

Further reading

• tätort in Svensk ordbok.