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
Stockholm
Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...
, 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 ''
Million Programme
The Million Programme () was a large public housing program implemented in Sweden between 1965 and 1974 by the governing Swedish Social Democratic Party to ensure the availability of affordable, high-quality housing to all Swedish citizens. Th ...
'' 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
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
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
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Million Programme