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Pages in category "Villages in Sweden" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Asby, Sweden; B.
Map of Sweden Stockholm, capital of Sweden Gothenburg Malmö. This is a list of cities in modern Sweden that once enjoyed city privileges, thus were entitled to call themselves town (Swedish: stad, plural städer). The year indicates the year they were established or when they were granted a royal charter.
This is a list of municipalities of Sweden after the division at the turn of the year of 2011–12. There are 290 municipalities. There are 290 municipalities. All statistics are from 1 January 2013, except for population (30 September 2013) and density (1 January 2013 and 30 September 2013).
There are 1,956 urban areas in Sweden as defined by Statistics Sweden on 31 December 2010. The official term used by Statistics Sweden is "locality" (Swedish: tätort) instead of "urban area" and they are defined as having a minimum of 200 inhabitants. The total population of the localities was 8,016,000 in 2010, which made up 85% of the ...
Twin towns of Linköping in 2010 Map of Sweden. This is a list of municipalities of Sweden which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (Swedish: vänort) (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
Map of Sweden. Much of Sweden is heavily forested, with 69% [1] of the country being forest and woodland, while farmland constitutes only 8% of land use. [2] Sweden consists of 39,960 km 2 of water area, constituting around 95,700 lakes. [3] [A] The lakes are sometimes used for water power plants, especially the large northern rivers and lakes.
The then 89 cities/towns (städer) (the same word is used for both city and town in Swedish) were based on the old chartered cities. There was also a third type, köping or market town. The status of these was somewhere between the rural municipalities and the cities. There were only eight of them in 1863, rising to a peak of 96 in 1959.
A region (Swedish: region) is a self-governing local authority of Sweden. There are 21 regions (one of which is a municipality having the same responsibilities as a region), each corresponding roughly to a county .