A registration district is, since 1 January 2016, the smallest administrative subdivision for population registration in Sweden ( sv, folkbokföring), i.e. the

civil registration Civil registration is the system by which a government records the vital events ( births, marriages, and deaths) of its citizens and residents. The resulting repository or database has different names in different countries and even in differ ...

of births, marriages,

civil partnerships A civil union (also known as a civil partnership) is a legally recognized arrangement similar to marriage, created primarily as a means to provide recognition in law for same-sex couples. Civil unions grant some or all of the rights of marriage ...

and deaths, and for the collation of census information. Geographically, the districts correspond to the

parishes of the Church of Sweden The Parishes of the Church of Sweden ( sv, Svenska kyrkans församlingar) are subdivisions within the Church of Sweden that historically were called ''socken'' but nowadays are called ''församling''. Similar units were used for municipal (''land ...

of 31 December 1999. Swedish National Heritage Board, 27 January 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2016.SFS 2015:493 Förordning om distrikt.
Svensk författningssamling, 17. June 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2016.Geografiska Sverigedata – Distriktsindelning

Lantmäteriet Lantmäteriet (The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority) is a government agency in Sweden that provides information on Swedish geography and property. Its main seat is in Gävle. Susanne Ås Sivborg is currently the Director ...

, 1 February 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2018. About 85% of the old

socken Socken is the name used for a part of a county in Sweden. In Denmark similar areas are known as ''sogn'', in Norway ''sokn'' or ''sogn'' and in Finland ''pitäjä'' ''(socken)''. A socken is a country-side area that was formed around a church, ...

s corresponds with the new districts. The civil registration was originally maintained by the Church of Sweden, but since July 1991 it is administered by the Swedish Tax Agency. The registration district is also used for registration of land ownership by

, for the reason that owned land was historically named after parish:neighbourhood:number, but in 2000 changed to municipality:neighbourhood:number, which caused confusion with multiple neighbourhood names in the same municipality.

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{{reflist Subdivisions of Sweden

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