Skärholmen is a suburban area in the district of

Söderort Söderort (literally "the southern place", sometimes translated to ''South Stockholm'') is the southern suburban part of the Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. It is also part of the city of Stockholm. Geography Söderort is located in the north ...

in south-western

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, Sweden. Together with

Bredäng Bredäng is a district of Söderort, Stockholm, Sweden. In the southwest section of the city, it is a part of the Skärholmen borough and is named after a former farm in the area. Bredäng has an 18th-century mansion (''Jakobsbergs gård'') nam ...

Sätra Sätra is a suburb in the district in Söderort in Stockholm, Sweden. Location The district is bounded on the north by Lake Mälaren and on the south by Södertalje Road, a section of European route E4 and European route E20. Sätra borders ...

and Vårberg, it forms the borough of Skärholmen. The community primarily consisting of ''

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'' style apartment buildings from the 1960s and early 1970s. It is one of the larger and more well known suburbs of Stockholm. Skärholmen Centrum (also known as SKHLM), one of the biggest shopping centres in

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is situated in Skärholmen.

Metro station

The Skärholmen metro station was opened in 1967. The station is on the Red line (''Tunnelbana 2'') of the Stockholm metro.

Sports

The following sports clubs are located in Skärholmen: * IFK Stockholm

References

City districts of Stockholm Municipality {{Stockholm-geo-stub Million Programme