Södermalm is a island of Stockholm in Sweden, which forms the southern part of the downtown area. It is divided into two municipalities: Katarina-Sofia and Maria-Gamla stan. She gathers 96.549 inhabitants (in 2004). Regarded a long time by Stockholmois as the poor district of the city, its coast was seen climbing these twenty last years, so that it comes from there to measure Stureplan like district more connected city.