Lidköping Municipality () is a

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in western

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. Its seat is located in the

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Lidköping Lidköping () is a locality and the seat of Lidköping Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had about 40,000 inhabitants in 2021. It is situated on the southern shore of Lake Vänern and sometimes refers to itself as "Lidkö ...

. Lidköping sometimes refers to itself as "Lidköping by

Vänern Vänern ( , , ) is the largest lake in Sweden, the largest lake in the European Union and the third-largest lake in Europe after Ladoga and Onega in Russia. It is located in the provinces of Västergötland, Dalsland, and Värmland in the sou ...

", possibly to distinguish itself from the namewise (and historically) similar city of

Linköping Linköping ( , ) is a city in southern Sweden, with around 167,000 inhabitants as of 2024. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality and the capital of Östergötland County. Linköping is also the episcopal see of the Diocese of Linköping (Chu ...

in eastern Sweden.

Geography

Lidköping Municipality is, together with its western neighbor Götene, located on the Läckö-Kinnekulla

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. There are several

islands that belong to the municipality. One of them is Läckö, where the Läckö Castle is a notable sight.

Localities

Population numbers of the towns and villages, from SCB, December 31 of noted year.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Lidköping Municipality's electoral districts in the

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sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 40,403 residents, including 31,517 Swedish citizens of voting age. 49.3 % voted for the left coalition and 49.5 % for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Symbol

is developing a profile plan to market itself as "Lidköping by

" and to this end have established the use of a logo depicting its location by Vänern. This logo is used in all official contexts, and also on the road signs when entering Lidköping.

References

External links

Lidköping Municipality
- Official site
Läckö Kinnekulle
- The "Götene-Lidköping Vänern" tourism company

- From

Nordisk Familjebok (, 'Nordic Family Book') is a Swedish language, Swedish encyclopedia that was published in print from between 1876 and 1993, and that is now fully available in digital form via Project Runeberg at Linköping University. The public domain edit ...