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Flen Municipality (''Flens kommun'') is a
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in central
Södermanland County Södermanland County ( sv, Södermanlands län) is a county or ''län'' on the southeast coast of Sweden. In the local Sörmlandic dialects it is virtually universally shortened and pronounced as Sörmlands län, or simply Sörmland, which is th ...
in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the
city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...
of
Flen Flen (local pronunciation ''Flén'') is a locality and the seat of Flen Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 6,229 inhabitants in 2010. Flen evolved as a railway junction and got the title of a city in 1949. Since 1971 it is the seat o ...
. The present municipality was formed in 1971 through the amalgamation of the ''City of Flen'' (instituted in 1949), the market town (''
köping ''Köping'' was a Swedish denomination for a market town since the Middle Ages, derived from the Old Norse word ''kaupang''. The designation was officially abolished with the municipal reform of 1971, when Sweden was subdivided into the Municip ...
'')
Malmköping Malmköping is a locality situated in Flen Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 1,977 inhabitants in 2010. Malmköping is located about 15 kilometers north of the municipal seat Flen. It is a tourist attraction due to its many annual ...
and the surrounding countryside, including a southeastern portion of the former Oppunda hundred that was split between Flen and Nyköping municipalities. It also includes all of the former Villåttinge hundred.


Geography

Flen Municipality is a lowland inland municipality that falls to above sea level on the lakes of Långhalsen and Torpfjärden in the southeastern area. The highest peak is at on the tripoint between Flen, Gnesta and
Strängnäs Strängnäs is a locality and the seat of Strängnäs Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 15,363 inhabitants in 2020. It is located by Lake Mälaren and is the episcopal see of the Diocese of Strängnäs, one of the thirteen dioceses ...
municipalities.


Localities

Figures from Statistics Sweden, 2004. *
Flen Flen (local pronunciation ''Flén'') is a locality and the seat of Flen Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 6,229 inhabitants in 2010. Flen evolved as a railway junction and got the title of a city in 1949. Since 1971 it is the seat o ...
6,107 *
Malmköping Malmköping is a locality situated in Flen Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 1,977 inhabitants in 2010. Malmköping is located about 15 kilometers north of the municipal seat Flen. It is a tourist attraction due to its many annual ...
2,006 * Hälleforsnäs 1,737 * Sparreholm 799 * Skebokvarn 225 * Mellösa 549 * Bettna 410 *Vadsbro 118 Of these places, Malmköping, located about 15 km north of Flen, surpasses Flen as a tourism attraction due to its two annual markets. The traditions of markets in Malmköping goes back centuries, as Malmköping got market town rights (became a ''köping'') already in 1785.


Elections

The following results are since the 1972 municipal reform onwards.


Riksdag


References


External links


Flen Municipality
- Official site {{authority control Municipalities of Södermanland County