Lund

For other uses, see Lund (disambiguation).

Lund
Clockwise from top: Lund Cathedral and Lundagård; Lund University Main Building; Lund University library.
Coat of arms
Motto:  Idéernas stad (Eng: The city of ideas)
Lund Location within Scania Lund Location within Sweden Lund Location within European Union
Coordinates: 55°42′14″N 13°11′42″E
Country	Sweden
Province	Scania
County	Scania County
Municipality	Lund Municipality
Area
• Total	26.37 km2 (10.18 sq mi)
Population  (2020)
• Total	94,393
• Density	3,580/km2 (9,300/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Lundensare, Lundabo
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	lund.se/en/

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Lund (/lʊnd/, US also /lʌnd/ LU(U)ND; Swedish: [ˈlɵnːd] ^ⓘ) is a city in the province of Scania, southern Sweden. The town had 94,393 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 130,288 as of 2023. It is the seat of Lund Municipality, Scania County. The Öresund Region, which includes Lund, is home to more than 4.2 million people.

Archeologists date the founding of Lund to around 990, when Scania was part of Denmark. From 1103 it was the seat of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lund, and the towering Lund Cathedral, built c. 1090–1145, still stands at the centre of the town. Denmark ceded the city to Sweden in the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658.

Lund University, established in 1666, is one of Scandinavia's oldest and largest institutions for education and research. The university and its buildings dominate much of the centre of the city, and have led to Lund becoming a regional centre for high-tech industry.