- Vaxholm Municipality
Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Vaxholms kommun
county=Stockholm County
province=Uppland
capital=Vaxholm
arearank=281st
area=58.76
arealand=58.06
populationrank=207th
population=10,440
densityrank=29th
populationdensity=179.8
website=http://www.vaxholm.se/
footnotes=Area & population from SCB as of December 31, 2006Vaxholm Municipality ("Vaxholms kommun" or "Vaxholms stad") is a municipality within
Stockholm archipelago inStockholm County in east centralSweden . The municipalslogan is "Vaxholm – the capital of the archipelago", due to its central locatation in the archipelago. Its seat is located in the city ofVaxholm .Vaxholm was in the period 1974-1984 united with
Österåker Municipality , making up a municipality called Vaxholm, but with the seat inÅkersberga . After the "divorce" the new Vaxholm Municipality came out larger than it had been before the amalgamation. The municipality prefers to style itself "City of Vaxholm".64 islets are in the municipality, and also the
peninsula Bogesundslandet .Localities
*
Kullö , 201 inhabitants (2000)
*Oskar-Fredriksborg , 692 inhabitants (2000)
*Resarö , 2,079 inhabitants (2000)
*Vaxholm , 4,887 inhabitants (2000)
*Ytterby (mine), a renowned villageIndustry
The municipality has a significant amount of
tourism . Ships transporting passengers between the islands began running on a daily basis in the 1850s. Today, many of islands (among them the main island Vaxholm) can also be reached be bridges from the mainland.External links
* [http://www.vaxholm.se/ Vaxholm Municipality] - Official site
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