Vaxholm Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Vaxholms kommun


county=Stockholm County
province=Uppland
capital=Vaxholm


arearank=281st
area=58.76
arealand=58.06
populationrank=207th
population=10,440
densityrank=29th
populationdensity=179.8
website=http://www.vaxholm.se/
footnotes=Area & population from SCB as of December 31, 2006

Vaxholm Municipality ("Vaxholms kommun" or "Vaxholms stad") is a municipality within Stockholm archipelago in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. The municipal slogan is "Vaxholm – the capital of the archipelago", due to its central locatation in the archipelago. Its seat is located in the city of Vaxholm.

Vaxholm was in the period 1974-1984 united with Österåker Municipality, making up a municipality called Vaxholm, but with the seat in Åkersberga. After the "divorce" the new Vaxholm Municipality came out larger than it had been before the amalgamation. The municipality prefers to style itself "City of Vaxholm".

64 islets are in the municipality, and also the peninsula Bogesundslandet.

Localities

*Kullö, 201 inhabitants (2000)
*Oskar-Fredriksborg, 692 inhabitants (2000)
*Resarö, 2,079 inhabitants (2000)
*Vaxholm, 4,887 inhabitants (2000)
*Ytterby (mine), a renowned village

Industry

The municipality has a significant amount of tourism. Ships transporting passengers between the islands began running on a daily basis in the 1850s. Today, many of islands (among them the main island Vaxholm) can also be reached be bridges from the mainland.

External links

* [http://www.vaxholm.se/ Vaxholm Municipality] - Official site