Talk:Stockholm County

Åkersberga ?

This town sows up on Special:LonelyPages, which means nothing else on the site links to it. Its article says it is in Stockholm County so maybe there should be a link to it in this article. I do not know the area, so cannot be sure. Pashley (talk) 12:49, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Poor lonely article... but now it's integrated. I put it in the Stockholm archipelago article where it according to our current region division belongs. ϒpsilon (talk) 21:47, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Counties vs provinces

Sweden is divided into 21 Counties (län) but has historically been divided into 25 provinces (landskap). Stockholm county is comprised of the south-eastern third of Uppland province (the rest being Uppsala County) and the eastern third of Södermanland province (the rest being Södermanland County).

While provinces are more important for local history, culture and identity, counties are an administrational level dealing mainly with traffic and healthcare. Wouldn't it be more natural to use the provinces (Uppland and Södermanland) rather than the counties (Uppsala, Stockholm and Södermanland) as regions on wikivoyage? This is the system which the Swedish wikivoyage follows. Provinces are more relevant if a traveller wants to understand the area (An Uppland cousine would be the food that is traditional for Uppland. The "Uppsala county cousine" just sounds wierd. My best guess would be that it is the type of food which is served at hospitals in Uppsala county). With the current system Uppsala County and Södermanland County feel like artificial residual categories rather than proper regions, and it is hard to build travel guides about them. If it is important to maintain an article for the area surrounding Stockholm this could be called "Greater Stockholm" or "Metro Stockholm" or something like that.

Any thoughts? MartinJacobson (talk) 10:20, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

The discussion was brought up before. One drawback of the provincial structure, is that Stockholm is on the border of two provinces, as is Stockholm archipelago. Could probably be brought up on Talk:Sweden. /Yvwv (talk) 10:44, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Yes I can see how that would be a problem. Unfortunately I don’t know how to solve it. How do wikivoyage usually handle bi-regional destinations? In the Swedish language version Stockholm is presented directly under the "Svealand" region. I brought the discussion up here as the norm seem to be to decide this on case to case basis (Småland is a one province region, not three County regions, while Norrland is divided on a County basis since many of the Norrland provinces are two small to be helpful wikivoyage-regions). However, if you think that it is better to move the discussion we could do that. /MartinJacobson (talk) 11:48, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

See Wikivoyage:Geographical hierarchy for more information. /Yvwv (talk) 12:40, 14 April 2017 (UTC)