Metal man at the Electrum in Kista, Sweden

Kista (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɕiːsta]) is a district of Stockholm Municipality in Sweden. Located northwest of central Stockholm, it is divided by the Stockholm Metro blue line into a western part which is primarily a working class and middle class residential area, and an eastern part occupied by commercial ventures, mostly in the telecommunication and information technology industry. Kista hosts departments of both Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University (formerly jointly known as "the IT University"). Because of its ICT industries, it became referred to as Chipsta or Sweden's Silicon Valley in the 1980s.

Today Kista Science City is a vibrant cluster of ICT industries with more than 20 000 people involved in developing next generation 4G mobile telecommunications and Information and Communications solutions.

Kista is named after an old farm, still located in the area. The construction of the modern parts were started in the 1970s. Many of the streets in Kista are named after towns and famous people from Denmark and Iceland. One exception is Barjami road, named after one of the leading engineers behind Kistas modernisation, Sam Barjami. A dispute has arisen among various locals regarding its validity, and one of the main opponents of this fairly small movement, Jonath Mathew, also a two-time Swedish champion in pigeon shooting (2007 and 2009), has been adamant to change the name in line with the underlining theme of the municipality.

Kista was a so called borough (stadsdelsområde) in Stockholm, Sweden until January 1, 2007. It organized the districts of Akalla, Hansta, Husby and Kista. In 2007, Kista merged with the borough of Rinkeby to form the Rinkeby-Kista borough.