Kinda Municipality (''Kinda 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
Östergötland County
Östergötland County ( sv, Östergötlands län) is a county or '' län'' in southeastern Sweden. It has land borders with the counties of Kalmar to the southeast, Jönköping to the southwest, Örebro to the northwest, and Södermanland to the ...
, southeast
Sweden
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. The municipal seat is located in the town
Kisa, with some 4,000 inhabitants.
The present municipality was created in 1974 through the amalgamation of three municipalities called ''Norra Kinda'', ''Södra Kinda'' and ''Västra Kinda'' (North, South and West Kinda respectively), which had been formed in 1952 from the nine original entities. The name was taken from the old
Kinda Hundred
Kinda Municipality (''Kinda kommun'') is a municipality in Östergötland County, southeast Sweden. The municipal seat is located in the town Kisa, with some 4,000 inhabitants.
The present municipality was created in 1974 through the amalgamati ...
.
Localities
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Horn
Horn most often refers to:
*Horn (acoustic), a conical or bell shaped aperture used to guide sound
** Horn (instrument), collective name for tube-shaped wind musical instruments
*Horn (anatomy), a pointed, bony projection on the head of various ...
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Kisa (seat)
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Rimforsa
Rimforsa is a locality situated in Kinda Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 2,238 inhabitants in 2010.
It is surrounded by a lot of forest and is approximately 40 km south of the city of Linköping
Linköping () is a city i ...
Nature
Naturewise, the municipality is above all known for the
Kinda Canal, a waterway of canals taking boat tours from lake
Roxen south through
Linköping
Linköping () is a city in southern Sweden, with around 105,000 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality and the capital of Östergötland County. Linköping is also the episcopal see of the Diocese of Linköping (Church ...
, ending in Horn. The total of distance is 90 km.
References
External links
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Kinda Municipality- Official site
Kinda Canal- Site in Swedish, English and German
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Municipalities of Östergötland County