Malmköping is a
locality
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situated in
Flen Municipality
Flen Municipality (''Flens kommun'') is a municipalities of Sweden, municipality in central Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city status in Sweden, city of Flen.
The present municipality was formed in 1971 thro ...
,
Södermanland County
Södermanland County ( sv, Södermanlands län) is a county or '' län'' on the southeast coast of Sweden. In the local Sörmlandic dialects it is virtually universally shortened and pronounced as Sörmlands län, or simply Sörmland, which is t ...
,
Sweden
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with 1,977 inhabitants in 2010.
Malmköping is located about 15 kilometers north of the municipal seat
Flen
Flen (local pronunciation ''Flén'') is a locality and the seat of Flen Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 6,229 inhabitants in 2010.
Flen evolved as a railway junction and got the title of a city in 1949. Since 1971 it is the seat of ...
. It is a
tourist attraction
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Places of natural b ...
due to its many annual markets. The traditions of markets in Malmköping goes back more than two centuries, as Malmköping got market town rights (''
köping
''Köping'' was a Swedish denomination for a market town since the Middle Ages, derived from the Old Norse word ''kaupang''. The designation was officially abolished with the municipal reform of 1971, when Sweden was subdivided into the Munici ...
'') in 1785.
There is also a museum
tram
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way in Malmköping, the , which runs heritage
tram
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s from most of the Swedish tramway systems. Olympian
Helge Meuller was born here.
Riksdag
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elections
In literature
Jonas Jonasson's 2009 novel ''
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared'' opens in Malmköping. The
movie
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, however, is recorded in Munkedal, Bohuslän.
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Populated places in Södermanland County
Populated places in Flen Municipality
Market towns in Sweden
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