Helsingborg Municipality (''Helsingborgs kommun'') is a

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. Its seat is located in the city of Helsingborg, which is Sweden's eighth largest city. The municipality had a population of 147,734 on January 1, 2019, and the metro has about 320,000 inhabitants. Between 1912 and 1971 the name of the town was officially spelled Hälsingborg (rather like the region of

Hälsingland Hälsingland (), sometimes referred to as Helsingia in English, is a historical province or ''landskap'' in central Sweden. It borders Gästrikland, Dalarna, Härjedalen, Medelpad and the Gulf of Bothnia. It is part of the land of Norrland. Ad ...

but unlike neighbouring Danish

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and the Finnish capital Helsingfors (

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)). The spelling was changed back to the older version when the present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the ''Town of Hälsingborg'' with four surrounding rural municipalities. Since the 1990s the municipality again styles itself ''Helsingborgs stad'' (''Town of Helsingborg''). This usage is only nominal and has no effect on the status of the municipality.

Localities

As of 2018, there were 16 urban areas the municipality.

International relations

Twin towns — sister cities

Helsingborg is twinned with: *

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, United States *

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, Croatia * Liepāja, Latvia * Pärnu, Estonia

References

Statistics Sweden

External links

Helsingborg Municipality
- Official site
The local daily newspaper
Municipalities of Skåne County Scania {{Skåne-geo-stub

Localities

International relations

Twin towns — sister cities

See also

References

External links