Norrköping Municipality (''Norrköpings kommun'') is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality ...
in
Östergötland County in southeast
Sweden. 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 de ...
of
Norrköping, with some 90,000 inhabitants. It is the largest municipality in Östergötland.
By the time of the local government reform of 1971 the ''City of Norrköping'' was
amalgamated with the rural municipality of ''Skärblacka'' forming a new municipality of unitary type. In 1974 ''Vikbolandet'' was added. The number of original local government units (as of 1863) which are in the present municipality is 26.
Localities
Places with more than 200 inhabitants as of 2000:
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Herstadberg
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Jursla
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Kimstad
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Krokek
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Lindö
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Ljunga
Ljunga is a locality situated in Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdo ...
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Loddby
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Norrköping (seat)
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Norsholm
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Simonstorp
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Skärblacka
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Strömsfors
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Svärtinge
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VÃ¥nga
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Ã…by
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Ã…selstad
Åselstad is a locality situated in Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kin ...
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Öbonäs
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Östra Husby
Östra Husby is a Village situated in Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 904 inhabitants in 2020. Östra Husby is situated 22 kilometers east of Norrköping and 16 kilometers northeast of Söderköping, Sweden
Swe ...
Government and infrastructure
The
Swedish Transport Agency has its headquarters in
Norrköping, Norrköping Municipality. When the
Civil Aviation Administration existed, its head office was in Norrköping.
[Contact]
" Civil Aviation Administration. 16 June 2010. Retrieved on 6 December 2010. "Swedish Civil Aviation Administration S-601 79 Norrköping."
International relations
Twin towns — Sister cities
Norrköping is
twinned
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* In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so;
* Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning
* Twinning inst ...
with:
See also
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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 Muni ...
(concept)
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Nävsjön
Nävsjön is a lake in Sweden. It straddles the boundary between Norrköping Municipality in Östergötland County and Nyköping Municipality
Nyköping Municipality ( sv, Nyköpings kommun) is a municipality in Södermanland County in southeas ...
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Ã…, Sweden
References
External links
Norrköping Municipality- Official site
Norrköping Tourism
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Norrköping
Municipalities of Östergötland County