Västervik Municipality () is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
in
Kalmar County
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, south-eastern
Sweden
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, with its seat in the
city
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of
Västervik
Västervik is a city status in Sweden, city and the seat of Västervik Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden, with 36,747 inhabitants in 2021. Västervik is one of three coastal towns with a notable population size in the province of Småland.
Cl ...
.
The present municipality was created in 1971, when the former ''City of Västervik'' was
amalgamated with eight surrounding rural municipalities.
Localities
There are 11
urban area
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s (also called localities, Swedish: ''tätorter'') in Västervik Municipality.
In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Västervik Municipality's electoral districts in the
2022 Swedish general election
General elections were held in Sweden on 11 September 2022 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag who in turn elected the Prime Minister of Sweden. Under the constitution, regional and municipal elections were also held on the same day. The pr ...
sourced from
SVT's election platform, in turn taken from
SCB official statistics.
In total there were including 36,704 residents, including 29,293 Swedish citizens of voting age.
[ 48.2 % voted for the left coalition and 50.3 % for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
]
International relations
Twin towns — Sister cities
The municipality is twinned with:
References
Statistics Sweden
External links
Västervik Municipality
- Official site
Västervik Tourism Official site
- In Swedish, English and German
in 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 ...
Coat of arms
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Municipalities of Kalmar County
Småland