Kista (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɕiːsta]) is a district in the borough of Rinkeby-Kista, Stockholm, Sweden.

It has a strategic
position located in between Sweden's main airport, the Stockholm-Arlanda International Airport and central Stockholm, and
alongside the main national highway E4 economic artery. Kista comprises residential and commercial areas, the latter in the
highly technological telecommunication and information technology industry.[1] There are large research efforts in this entire
area, which therefore is dubbed Kista Science City. It is known [by whom?] as the research park of KTH Royal Institute of
Technology.
Kista is the largest Information and Communications Technology (ICT) cluster in Europe,[2] and the world's second
largest[3] cluster after Silicon Valley in California. It is the largest corporate area in Sweden, important to the national
economy[4] due to the presence of, among others, Ericsson Group, the largest corporation in Sweden.
Kista Science City is the location where a large portion of the research and development of the world's 4G LTE mobile
telephony infrastructure is being developed, a European ETSI standard used worldwide and Kista Science City has been the
largest such cluster in Europe for decades. [when?][2] A majority is done at Ericsson corporation, with 100,000 employees
worldwide, but with its research and worldwide Headquarters in the Kista Science City.
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.[5]Most of the streets in Kista are named after towns and places in Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, and Faroe
Islands. Before the opening of the Mall of Scandinavia, Kista Galleria was the biggest shopping center in the Stockholm
region. Because of its ICT industries, it became in the 1980s referred to as "Chipsta" [6] and, after Sweden joined the EU in
1995, also as Europe's "Silicon Valley".[5][7]