1.4 million in the urban area and 2.1 million in the metropolitan area is not exactly tiny.
Tel Aviv is for example smaller, but I guess that the comparison is to the bay area/silicon valley or something like that.
Tel Aviv is for example smaller, but I guess that the comparison is to the bay area/silicon valley or something like that.
The Swedish definition of "metropolitan" area is skewed, it consists of several cities and according to wikipedia its 6,519 km2 that is compared to Tel Avivs metropolian area of 1,516 km2. Still Tel Avivs has a metropolitan population of 3.4 million people compared to Stockholm's 2.1 million.
Just looking at the map, a slightly better/more conventional measure of Stockholm might be Stockholm municipality[1] + Huddinge, Sundbyberg and Solna, which gives an area of 350 km2 and a population of about 1.1 million.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Municipality
San Francisco attracts talent from all over the US, or rather from all over the world.
But it is a tiny tiny tiny startup ecosystem.