It is connected by train to Copenhagen Central Station and beyond as well as to Malmö and other towns in Sweden.

The Swedish part, however, goes through most of Sweden except the extreme north, and it is commonly considered the highway backbone of Sweden, since it passes in the immediate vicinity of all the major cities and large towns except four ( these being Gothenburg, Malmö, Västerås and Örebro ), but including Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden.

Darius Degher, a professor at Malmö University in Sweden, uses the term decentered English to describe this shift, along with attendant changes in what is considered to be important to English users and learners.

Education and research in the health sciences at the university is operated in cooperation with Skåne University Hospital, located in both Lund and Malmö.

Malmö (), in the southernmost province of Scania, is Sweden's third largest city by population after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and is one of the largest cities in Scandinavia.

Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County.

The administrative entity for most of the city is Malmö Municipality which, as of January 2012, has 302, 835 inhabitants in eight different localities.

Malmö is also a bimunicipal locality, as part of it is formally situated in Burlöv Municipality.

Greater Malmö is one of Sweden's three officially recognized Metropolitan areas ( storstadsområden ) and since 2005 is defined as the municipality of Malmö and 11 other municipalities in the southwestern corner of Scania.

Lund, with a municipal population of over 100, 000 and home to one of Scandinavia's major universities, is together with Malmö the region's economic and education hub.

Malmö is going to host the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 held in Malmö Arena.

Malmö is thought to have been founded in 1275, as a fortified quay or ferry berth of the Archbishop of Lund, some 20 km to the north-east.

The Malmö Castle is to the far left.

Malmö is located at 13 ° 00 ' east and 55 ° 35 ' north.

Malmö has of bike paths and approximately 40 % of all commuting is done by bicycle.

Malmö has 2 industrial harbours ; one is still in active use and is the biggest Nordic port for car importation.

There are movements for considering Malmö as part of the Copenhagen metropolitan area or an even larger metropolitan area, which would be called Örestad in Swedish and Ørestad in Danish, since it would consist of all the towns around the Sound.

The Malmö urban area, Malmö tätort consists of the urban part of the municipality together with the small town of Arlöv in the municipality of Burlöv.

* Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden, often referred to as twin cities, as part of the Öresund Region, divided by the Øresund strait.

The Malmö City Tunnel has the benefit of connecting the southern part of the inner city to the rail network and allowing many more trains to and from Malmö.

Its seat is located in Arlöv, a community which for geographical and statistical purposes is seen as a part of Malmö urban area ( Malmö tätort ).

There are 3 urban areas ( also called a tätort or locality ) in Burlöv Municipality including Arlöv, which statistically is a part of the Malmö urban area.

Malmö is mostly located in Malmö Municipality but a part of it sprawls into Burlöv Municipality.

Lomma Municipality is also considered part of Metropolitan Malmö, showing itself for instance by the 6, 500 commuters that live in there.

It is considered part of Greater Malmö by Statistics Sweden.

Some 3. 500 drawings are still thought to exist, of which more than 2. 600 are part of the collections of the Malmö Art Museum, as are 23 of his oil paintings.

Malmö has recently emerged in the eastern part of the Oresund region, tied together with Copenhagen, Denmark, through the Oresund Bridge.

Sveriges Television hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1985, 1992 and 2000, also as a part of Sveriges Radio in 1975, and will host the 2013 edition in Malmö.

The first motorway in Sweden was inaugurated in 1953 connecting Malmö and Lund ( today part of European route E22 ).

The Oresund strait between Malmö and Copenhagen with Malmö in the foreground and the island of Amager and part of southern Copenhagen in the background.

It is statistically not defined as a locality of its own, but forms part of the contiguous Malmö urban area, 5 km northeast of downtown Malmö.

However, in the 1950s, a public vote took place, deciding once and for all that Burlöv municipality would never be a part of Malmö.

The Øresund or Öresund Region (; ) is a transnational region in northern Europe, centred on the cities of Copenhagen and Malmö.

The Oresund Bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö consists of a four-lane highway on the upper level and a pair of railway tracks at the lower level.

* Oresund Bridge, a combined two-track rail and four-lane road bridge with a main span of 490 metres and a total length of 7. 85 km, crossing the Öresund between Malmö, Sweden and the Danish Capital Region.

There are also have been proposals to connect Helsinki and Tallinn as one metropolitan area, like Copenhagen and Malmö ( Oresund Region ), by a railroad beneath the Gulf of Finland.

Connections to Sweden use the Oresund Railway across Oresund Bridge and are SJ's X 2000 service to Stockholm, or frequent Oresundtrain commuter services to Malmö Central Station and beyond.

The X2 trains had a speed of up to on the West Coast Line from Gothenburg Central Station to Malmö Central Station, and then ran along the Oresund Line via Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup Station to Copenhagen Central Station.

Its last use in Malmö was in 1997, when it lifted the foundations of the high pillars of the Oresund Bridge.

Linköping and neighbouring twin city Norrköping together form one of Sweden's biggest metropolitan areas ; The Linköping-Norrköping Corridor is therefore often referred to as The Fourth Metropolitan Region of Sweden, the other three being Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.

Region Skåne ( or formally Skåne läns landsting ) was created on January 1, 1999, by the amalgamation of the County councils of Malmöhus County and Kristianstad County and some of the tasks handled by Malmö Municipality.

Before Region Skåne was formed in 1999 on a trial basis, the regional development was the responsibility of a Regional Association, comprising the 33 municipalities together with the then current health services principals, namely the Kristianstad and Malmöhus county councils and the Health Services authority in the City of Malmö.