Kalmar Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Kalmar kommun


county=Kalmar County
province=Småland
capital=Kalmar


arearank=122nd
area=965.20
arealand=961.76
populationrank=32nd
population=61,321
densityrank=80th
populationdensity=63.8
website=http://www.kalmar.se/
footnotes=Area and population as of December 31, 2006

Kalmar Municipality ("Kalmar kommun") is a municipality in Kalmar County, southeastern Sweden. The city of Kalmar is the municipal seat.

The present municipality was created in 1971, when the "City of Kalmar" was amalgamated with five surrounding rural municipalities. The municipality consists of fifteen original local government units.

Localities

There are 15 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Kalmar Municipality.

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

References

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

External links

* [http://www.kalmar.se/ Kalmar Municipality] - Official site
* [http://www.hik.se/english/ University of Kalmar]