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{{About|Swedish district}}▼
{{short description|District in Rinkeby-Kista, Stockholm, Sweden}}
▲{{About|Swedish district}}
[[File:Kista-flygbild.jpg|alt=Aerial overview of central Kista. Foto: JM AB. Fotograf: Gustav Kaiser|thumb|Aerial overview of central Kista]]
[[Image:Kistavictoriahotelnr1 Publish.jpg|thumb|right|[[Scandic Victoria Tower|Victoria Tower]] in Kista]]
'''Kista''' ({{IPA-sv|ˈɕǐːsta}}, meaning "Coffin") is a district in the [[Districts of Sweden#Stockholm|borough]] of [[Rinkeby-Kista]], [[Stockholm Municipality|Stockholm]],
Kista is the largest [[Information and communications technology|Information and Communications Technology (ICT)]] cluster in Europe,<ref name="kista.com">{{cite web| url = http://www.kista.com| title = Hem - Kista Science City}}</ref> and was ranked the world's second largest<ref>Page 84. The Business of Global Energy Transformation: Saving Billions through Sustainable Models. Mats R. Larsson. Global Energy Transformation Institute. 2012, Palgrave Macmillan. Macmillan Publishers Limited, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, United Kingdom. https://books.google.com/books?id=RX4x1amBi44C
Kista Science City is the location where a large portion of the research and development of the world's [[LTE (telecommunication)|4G LTE]] mobile telephony infrastructure is being developed, to a European [[ETSI]] standard used worldwide
Kista was named after an old farm "Kista Gård", still located in the area. The construction of the modern parts were started in the 1970s.<ref name="AntonellaEmma2009">{{cite book|last1=Antonella|first1=Noya|last2=Emma|first2=Clarence|last3=Gary|first3=Craig|title=Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Community Capacity Building Creating a Better Future Together: Creating a Better Future Together|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8_TFVEFrqSsC&pg=PA119|date=7 December 2009|publisher=OECD Publishing|isbn=978-92-64-07329-6|page=119}}</ref> Most of the streets in Kista are named after towns and places in [[Denmark]], [[Iceland]], [[Greenland]], and the [[Faroe Islands]]. Before the opening of the [[Mall of Scandinavia]], [[Kista Galleria]] was the biggest shopping center in the [[Stockholm County|Stockholm region]].
Because of its [[Information and communication technologies|ICT]] industries, it became in the 1980s referred to as "Chipsta"<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-dXAwAAQBAJ&q=Chipsta+kista&pg=PA120|title=Urban Innovation Systems: What makes them tick?|last1=Winden|first1=Willem van|last2=Braun|first2=Erik|last3=Otgaar|first3=Alexander|last4=Witte|first4=Jan-Jelle|date=2014-04-11|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317917458|language=en}}</ref> and, after Sweden joined the EU in 1995, also as Europe's "Silicon Valley".<ref name="AntonellaEmma2009"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nordichardware.se/Coverage/overclocking-at-intel.html|title=Overclocking at Intel|publisher=Nordichardware.se|access-date=4 February 2014}}</ref>
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==Gallery==
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