Håbo Municipality ( sv, Håbo 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
Uppsala County
Uppsala County ( sv, Uppsala län) is a county or ''län'' on the eastern coast of Sweden, whose capital is the city of Uppsala. It borders the counties of Dalarna, Stockholm, Södermanland, Västmanland, Gävleborg, and the Baltic Sea.
Prov ...
in east central
Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of
Bålsta
Bålsta is a locality and the seat of Håbo Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden with 13 138 inhabitants in 2015.
Although not in Stockholm County, it has Bålsta Station, the north-western terminus of the Stockholm suburban rail system. Many ...
.
The municipality was formed in connection with the local government reform of 1952.
Localities
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Bålsta
Bålsta is a locality and the seat of Håbo Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden with 13 138 inhabitants in 2015.
Although not in Stockholm County, it has Bålsta Station, the north-western terminus of the Stockholm suburban rail system. Many ...
(seat)
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Slottsskogen
Slottsskogen (, "Castle Forest") is a 137-hectare park located in central Gothenburg, Sweden.
History
When Gothenburg was founded in the 17th century, the area of Slottsskogen was a forest that belonged to the Old Älvsborg fortress. In the ...
Since 2001, the municipality is connected with the
Stockholm commuter rail system by an extension to
Bålsta Station
Bålsta is a locality and the seat of Håbo Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden with 13 138 inhabitants in 2015.
Although not in Stockholm County, it has Bålsta Station, the north-western terminus of the Stockholm suburban rail system. Man ...
. Coming with this,
Bålsta
Bålsta is a locality and the seat of Håbo Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden with 13 138 inhabitants in 2015.
Although not in Stockholm County, it has Bålsta Station, the north-western terminus of the Stockholm suburban rail system. Many ...
now also offers interchange to regional railways, similar to
Märsta
Märsta () is a suburb of Metropolitan Stockholm, a locality and the seat of Sigtuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 27,034 inhabitants in 2015. The town is situated close to Stockholm's main international airport, Arlanda. Even though ...
,
Sundbyberg
Sundbyberg Municipality (''Sundbybergs kommun'' or ''Sundbybergs stad'') is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, just north of the capital Stockholm. Sundbyberg is wholly within the Stockholm urban area and has a 100% urban p ...
and
Södertälje
Södertälje ( , ) is a city in Södermanland and Stockholm County, Sweden and seat of Södertälje Municipality. As of 2017, it has 72,704 inhabitants. Södertälje is located at Mälarens confluence in to the Baltic Sea through the lock in the ...
.
See also
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Håbo Hundred
* Because
diacritic
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word ''diacriti ...
s are often dropped on the English oriented Internet, Håbo is sometimes confused with
Habo Municipality
Habo Municipality ( sv, Habo kommun) is a municipality in Jönköping County, southern Sweden, where the locality of Habo is seat.
The present municipality was formed in 1974 when a part of the dissolved rural municipality of ''Fågelsås'' wa ...
, located in
Jönköping County
Jönköping County ( sv, Jönköpings län) is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Halland, Västra Götaland, Östergötland, Kalmar and Kronoberg. The total county population was 356,291 inhabitants in Sept ...
in southern Sweden.
References
External links
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Håbo Municipality- Official site
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Municipalities of Uppsala County
Burial sites of the House of Eric