Skogås is a district of

Huddinge Municipality Huddinge Municipality ( sv, Huddinge kommun) is a municipality in Stockholm County, east central Sweden. Its seat is located in Huddinge (), which is a part of Stockholm urban area. The municipality is, with its approximately 110,000 inhabitants, ...

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, south of

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along the railroad to the city and harbour of

Nynäshamn Nynäshamn is a locality and the seat of Nynäshamn Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 13,510 inhabitants in 2010. While interest in the area as a potentially useful port grew from the mid 19th Century, it was only with the opening of the ...

. In 2016, Skogås had 14,451 inhabitants. The suburb has conjoined with its northern neighbour

Trångsund Trångsund () is a part of Huddinge to the south of Stockholm located between the two lakes Magelungen and Drevviken. Trångsund had 9,114 inhabitants in 2019. Trångsund is 17 minutes away from Stockholm City Station by train on the Bålsta-Nyn� ...

, forming a municipality district with a population of 22,200 people. The largest employer is the commercial centre in Länna. Sights include the Ågesta Nature Reserve, the lakes

Drevviken Drevviken is a lake in southern Stockholm, Sweden, shared by the four municipalities Stockholm, Haninge, Huddinge, and Tyresö. While much of the surrounding area is used for one-family houses, the lake and the green space north of it are conside ...

, Magelungen and Orlången, the congregations church Mariakyrkan, Trångsund Manor and the upper secondary school ''Östra Gymnasiet''. Beatebergsanstalten, a jail for minor offenders, is located in the northwest of Skogås. Skogås is served by line 43 of the

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, and is 20 minutes from

Stockholm City Station Stockholm City Station is a railway station in central Stockholm, Sweden. Opened on 10 July 2017, the station is located on the Stockholm City Line and is located directly below T-Centralen (the hub of the Stockholm Metro) and interchange with St ...

. Swedish national road 73 passes Skogås on its way to Nynäshamn. The name Skogås comes from the two words ''skog'' 'forest' and ''ås'' 'ridge'; hence "the forest-covered ridge", reflecting Skogås's topography of hills, ridges and valleys.

History

Skogås started its history as a cottage summer retreat outside the capital but was given town-like structures during the 1960s, when the town-centre containing some 30 shops was finished. During the 1980s a large settlement of rowhouses (the largest in the country) was added in the eastern part of the suburb and since then, several areas of villas and one-family houses have increased the population greatly. Since 1997, there has been an urge in Skogås and Trångsund to leave Huddinge Municipality, and form an own municipality. The major idea for the name of such a new municipality would be Drevviken, named after the adjacent lake. A local political party, Drevvikenpartiet, was formed before the 1998 elections, and a referendum was held in all of the municipality, with a majority for leaving in the Skogås-Trångsund area, and a majority for them staying in the rest of Huddinge. After the 2006 elections, neither the socialist or non-socialist parties gained a majority in Huddinge municipality, and Drevvikenpartiet joined a coalition with the non-socialist parties in exchange for the promise of a new referendum on April 20, 2008. This referendum was to be held in Skogås and Trångsund only, but this time the no-side won quite clearly, 58.8% no and 40.1% yes.

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