Helsingborg Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Helsingborgs kommun


county=Skåne County
province=Scania
capital=Helsingborg


arearank=227th
area=347.23
arealand=346.25
populationrank=9th
population=125,420
densityrank=20th
populationdensity=356.4
website=http://www.helsingborg.se/
footnotes=Area and population as of December 31, 2006

Helsingborg Municipality ("Helsingborgs kommun") is a municipality in Skåne County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Helsingborg, which is Sweden's eighth largest city.

The present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the "City of Hälsingborg" with four surrounding rural municipalities. At the same time the spelling of the name was changed back to the version used up until 1912. Since the 1990-es the municipality styles itself "Helsingborgs stad" ("City of Helsingborg"). This usage is only nominal and has no effect on the status of the municipality.

Localities

There are 15 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Helsingborg Municipality. In the table they are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

1) Rydebäck is bimunicipal [http://w41.scb.se/templates/Publikation____186288.asp] locality as a minor part of it (with about 40 inhabitants) is located in Landskrona Municipality.

See also

* Municipalities of Sweden
* European route E4

References

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

External links

* [http://www.helsingborg.se/ Helsingborg Municipality] - Official site
* [http://hd.se/ The local daily newspaper]