tätort

See also: Tatort

Swedish

Etymology

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

Nomen

tätort c

1. A built-up area (i.e. a city, town oder 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
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	tätort	tätorten	tätorter	tätorterna
Genitive	tätorts	tätortens	tätorters	tätorternas

Further reading

• tätort in Svensk ordbok.