Sigtuna Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Sigtuna kommun


county=Stockholm County
province=Uppland
capital=Märsta


arearank=226th
area=351.64
arealand=327.87
populationrank=63rd
population=37,793
densityrank=44th
populationdensity=112.8
website=http://www.sigtuna.se/
footnotes=Area & population from SCB as of December 31, 2007

Sigtuna Municipality ("Sigtuna kommun") is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Märsta.

The municipality is a part of Metropolitan Stockholm.

The municipality consists of a lot of former local government units and was formed in 1971. It got its name from the small, but very old, "City of Sigtuna", but the seat was placed in the much larger modern town of Märsta.

The three towns of the municipality are Märsta (pop. 23,000), Sigtuna (pop. 8,000) and Rosersberg (pop. 1,400), of which Märsta is the municipal seat and Sigtuna with its old and important history is a popular tourist destination.

Industry

In the municipality lies the largest workplace in Sweden, the Arlanda airport, with 13,000 employees in 200 companies. As a result, Siguna is travelled through by 18,300,000 visitors yearly, and has the fourth most hotel stays, following to the commercial and regional centras Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.

External links

* [http://www.sigtuna.se Sigtuna Municipality] - Official site

References

*Nordisk familjebok (article Sigtuna)