Gävle Municipality

Gävle Municipality

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centre=City
capital=Gävle
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county=Gävleborg County
province=Gästrikland
arearank=56th
area=1,485.1
areapercent=x.x
location=60_41_N_17_10_E
population_as_of=2005
populationrank=15
population=92,081
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populationdensity=57




Gävle Municipality ("Gävle kommun") is a municipality in east central Sweden where the City Gävle is the municipal seat.

Geographically the municipality is situated north of the mouth of the river Dalälven and is the southernmost municipality of the historical land of Norrland.

The present municipality was created in 1971, when the "City of Gävle" was amalgamated with four surrounding rural municipalities. All of them were original entities, instituted as municipalities by the local government acts of 1862. The area had not been affected by the national subdivision reform in 1952.

Geography

Gävle is situated by the Baltic Sea near the mouth of the river Dalälven. At 60 degrees north and 17 degrees east, Gävle has the same latitude as Helsinki and the same longitude as Vienna and Cape Town.

Gävle has a similar climate to the rest of central Sweden with an average temperature of -5 C in January and +17 C in July. Yearly rainfall is around 600 mm.

Politics

The municipal assembly ("kommunfullmäktige") has 65 members, elected for a four year period. The last election was held in September 2006. Eight parties are represented in the assembly. The largest party is the Swedish Social Democratic Party which has 25 seats. The current chairman of the municipal executive committee ("kommunstyrelsen") is the social democrat Carina Blank.

Localities

Data from 2000.

(Source: [http://epi.gavle.se/gk/t_sida.asp?id=7050] )

Major employers

# Gävle Municipality 8,000
# County Council 8,000
# Stora Enso 1,200
# Ericsson 1,100
# Korsnäs 1,100
# Lantmäteriverket 900

Sister cities

Nordic:
* Álftanes - Iceland
* Raumo, Finland
* Gjøvik, Norway
* Næstved, Denmark

Other:
* Galva, Illinois, USA
* Jūrmala - Latvia

Cooperation town with no formal sister city contract:
* Buffalo City, South Africa

( [http://epi.gavle.se/gk/t_sida.asp?id=6329] )

Education

The University College of Gävle currently enrolls 12,500 students.

It offers courses of study at six departments: Business Administration, Education and Psychology, Caring Sciences and Sociology, Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathematics, Natural and Computer Sciences and Technology, and Built Environment.

Some courses are given in English taught both to visiting students from foreign partner institutions and to Swedish students.

Whisky

Valbo, a suburb of Gävle, is home to Mackmyra Whisky, the only whisky distillery in Sweden. Malt whisky is produced since 1999.

ee also

*Municipalities of Sweden
*List of Swedish municipalities
*University College of Gävle
*International Ice Hockey Federation World Championships (1995)
*Gävleborg County Administrative Board
*List of Gävleborg Governors

External links

* [http://www.gavle.se Gävle] - Official site
* [http://www.sna.se/webatlas/muni/ National Atlas of Sweden] - Statistics


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