institutional coordination is especially needed with respect to migrants including greater vertical cooperation between centrallevel agencies and municipalities as well as horizontal coordination at the municipal level to avoid overlap oecd sweden has all types of rural areas within its national territory from those with proximity to functional urban areas to remote rural areas the southern part of the country is more densely populated than the north while the north is characterised by different areas such as a sparsely populated interior with population concentrated in cities along the coast in remote rural areas there are places which have very concentrated populations in few centres such as norrbotten and other where the population is more evenly distributed such as jamtlandharjedalen