Kungälv Municipality (''Kungälvs 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 ...

Västra Götaland County Västra Götaland County ( sv, Västra Götalands län) is a county or '' län'' on the western coast of Sweden. The county is the second most populous of Sweden's counties and it comprises 49 municipalities (''kommuner''). Its population of 1 ...

in western

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. 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 ...

Kungälv Kungälv () (old no, Konghelle) is a city and the seat of Kungälv Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 22,768 inhabitants in 2010. In 2021, the main Kungälv - Ytterby - Kareby conurbation had a combined population approachin ...

. The present municipality was formed in 1971 through the amalgamation of the ''City of Kungälv'', the ''City of

Marstrand Marstrand () is a seaside locality situated in Kungälv Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 1,320 inhabitants in 2010. The town got its name from its location on the island of Marstrand. Despite its small population, for histori ...

'' and territories belonging to four rural municipalities. In 1974 a minor part (situated on the

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Hisingen Hisingen () is the fifth-largest island of Sweden (after Gotland, Öland, Södertörn and Orust), with an area of . It is a river island, formed by the split of the Göta Älv at Bohus, and is defined to the east and south by the main arm of tha ...

) was transferred to

Gothenburg Municipality Gothenburg Municipality (''Göteborgs kommun'' or ''Göteborgs stad'') is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Gothenburg. When the first Swedish local government acts were implement ...

Kareby IS Kareby IS, is a sports club in Kareby, Kungälv Municipality, Sweden. The team colours are red, blue and white. The club was founded on 20 April 1945. It is now playing bandy, soccer, tennis and floorball. The ice practices and matches in bandy a ...

, which play their home matches at

Skarpe Nord Skarpe Nord is an ice skating rink in Kungälv. It is the home of IFK Kungälv, Kareby IS Kareby IS, is a sports club in Kareby, Kungälv Municipality, Sweden. The team colours are red, blue and white. The club was founded on 20 April 1945. It ...

in Kungälv, are the reigning

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

champions for women as of 2016.Picture from the prize ceremony of the 2016 final
They also won the title in 2011 and 2015.

Geography

Geographically it borders to

(south),

Ale Municipality Ale Municipality (''Ale kommun'') is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Nödinge-Nol, more precisely in Alafors at Ale Municipality was created in 1974, when the former municipalitie ...

(east),

Lilla Edet Municipality Lilla Edet Municipality (''Lilla Edets kommun'') is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Lilla Edet. The present municipality was formed in 1971, when the market town (''köping'') Lilla ...

(north-east) and

Stenungsund Municipality Stenungsund Municipality (''Stenungsunds kommun'') is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Stenungsund. The municipality is situated by the sea inside the islands Orust and Tjörn and ...

(north). To the east flows the

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

Göta älv The Göta älv (; "River of (the) Geats") is a river that drains lake Vänern into the Kattegat, at the city of Gothenburg, on the western coast of Sweden. It was formed at the end of the last glaciation, as an outflow channel from the Baltic Ic ...

and to the south, marking the border to Gothenburg, flows the river

Nordre älv ''Nordre'' (Northern), formerly known as ''Haramsnytt'' (The Haram News), is a local Norwegian newspaper covering events in the northern part of the municipality of Ålesund in Møre og Romsdal county. History The newspaper was established as ''Ha ...

. On an island in the river, the medieval

Bohus Fortress Bohus Fortress (also known as ''Baahus'' or ''Båhus'', originally: ''Bágahús'') lies along the old Norwegian–Swedish border in Kungälv, Bohuslän, Sweden, north east from Hisingen where the Göta river splits into two branches ( north of ...

faces the city of Kungälv.

Localities

, which was historically a largely autonomous island territory as the

Marstrand Free Port The Marstrand Free Port ( sv, Frihamnen Marstrand) was a largely autonomous island territory of Sweden, during the Gustavian Era of the late 18th century, which effectively functioned as a merchant republic. As a free port designed with inspirati ...

. It's the location of the stone fortress

Carlsten Carlsten ( sv, Karlstens fästning) is a stone fortress located at Marstrand, on the western coast of Sweden. The fortress was built on the orders of King Carl X of Sweden following the Treaty of Roskilde, 1658 to protect the newly acquired pro ...

. * Diseröd * Kareby *

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* Kärna *Solberga, where the oldest parts of the church dates back to the 12th century *Årsnäs File:Carlstens Fastning Flygfoto.JPG, Carsten,

File:Bohus fästning.jpg,

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kungalv Municipality Kungälv Municipality Municipalities of Västra Götaland County Metropolitan Gothenburg Gothenburg and Bohus