Kalmar Municipality (''Kalmar kommun'') is a
municipality
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in
Kalmar County
Kalmar County () is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Kronoberg, Jönköping, Blekinge and Östergötland. To the east in the Baltic Sea is the island Gotland.
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, southeastern
Sweden
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. The city of
Kalmar
Kalmar (, , ) is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 36,392 inhabitants in 2010 and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality. It is also the capital of Kalmar County, which comprises 12 municipalities with a total of ...
is the municipal seat.
The present municipality was created in 1971, when the ''City of Kalmar'' was
amalgamated
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with five surrounding rural municipalities. The municipality consists of fifteen original local government units.
Localities
There are 16
urban area
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s (also called a Tätort or locality) in Kalmar Municipality.
In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2019. The municipal seat is in bold characters.
International relations
Twin towns — sister cities
Kalmar is
twinned with:
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Gdańsk
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,
Poland
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''(since 1991)''
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Kaliningrad
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,
Russia
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*
Wilmington,
Delaware
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,
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Savonlinna
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,
Finland
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*
Samsun
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,
Turkey
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Panevėžys
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,
Lithuania
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References
Statistics Sweden
External links
Kalmar Municipality- Official site
University of Kalmar
Municipalities of Kalmar County
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