Malmö (Swedish pronunciation: ['mal? 'mø? ] ( listen closely); Danish: Malmø) is the third most significant town in Sweden as well as the sixth biggest from the Nordic Countries. Malmö is also probably the most populated town in Scania and it is the cultural and economical middle of South Sweden. Along with Copenhagen (in Denmark), it constitutes the transnational Øresund Region, the most densely inhabited region in Scandinavia. Malmö is classified as a global city, placed in the gammacategory by the GaWC,[4] ranked 5th in Scandinavia by the Global Cities Index in 2012.[5] It is ranked the fourth-most inventive city in the world based on the number of patent applications per 10,000 residents[6] and the 6th-most bicycle friendly city in the world, according to the Copenhagenize Index in 2015. www