Kristianstad Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Kristianstads kommun

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county=Skåne County
province=Scania (Skåne)
capital=Kristianstad


arearank=81st
area=1,346.00
arealand=1,251.72
populationrank=24th
population=76,540
densityrank=83rd
populationdensity=61.1
website=http://www.kristianstad.se/
footnotes=Area and population as of December 31, 2006|

Kristianstad Municipality ("Kristianstads kommun") is a municipality in Skåne County in southernmost Sweden. Its seat is located in the city Kristianstad.

The present municipality was created in three steps during the last nation-wide local government reform, and it has the largest area of the municipalities of Skåne County. In 1967 a number of rural municpalities were merged into the "City of Kristianstad". In 1971 more former units were added and the city became a unitary municpality. Finally in 1974, the last amalgamations took place, and the municipality reached its present size. The number of original entities is 35.

Localities

There are 26 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Kristianstad Municipality, which is a tied record for Sweden, together with Sundsvall Municipality.

In the table the urban areas are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

Town twinning

Kristianstad is twinned with the following cities: [http://www.kristianstad.se/templates_custom/Page____2414.aspx]

* Espoo, Finland
* Kongsberg, Norway
* Koszalin, Poland
* Køge, Denmark
* Rendsburg, Germany
* Šiauliai, Lithuania
* Skagafjörður, Iceland

ee also

*University College of Kristianstad
*Kristianstad County (abolished 1998)

References

* [http://www.scb.se Statistics Sweden]

External links

* [http://www.kristianstad.se Kristianstad] - Official site
* [http://www.ngw.nl/int/zwe/k/kristian.htm Coat of arms]