Köping

Köping was a Swedish denomination for a market town since the Middle Ages. The designation was officially abolished with the municipal reform of 1971, when Sweden was subdivided into the Municipalities of Sweden (currently amounting to 290).

As present-day Finland was once a part of Sweden, the Finnish word kauppala has the same meaning. In modern Finnish, the word kaupunki is the main word for town and city. Swedish köping and the Englishtoponymchipping are also cognates as is the Norwegian word kjøpstad and the Danish toponymical suffix -købing.