Lidköping Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Lidköpings kommun


county=Västra Götaland County
province=Västergötland
capital=Lidköping


arearank=79th
area=1,378.43
arealand=703.19
populationrank=60th
population=37,526
densityrank=88th
populationdensity=53.4
website=http://www.lidkoping.se/
footnotes=Area & population from SCB as of December 31, 2006

Lidköping Municipality ("Lidköpings kommun") is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Lidköping.

Lidköping sometimes refers to itself as "Lidköping by Vänern", possibly to distinguish itself from the namewise (and historically) similar city of Linköping in eastern Sweden.

Geography

Lidköping Municipality is, together with its western neighbor Götene, located on the Läckö-Kinnekulla peninsula. In association with several large local companies, they have a colloquial tourism company known as "Götene-Lidköping Vänern Turist AB".

There are several Vänern islands that belong to the municipality. One of them is Läckö, where the Läckö Castle is a notable sight.

ymbol

Lidköping is working hard to market itself as "Lidköping by Vänern". In line with this quest, they are developing a profile plan, wherein they have established the use of a symbol depicting its location by Vänern. The symbol is used in all official contexts, and also on the road signs when entering Lidköping.

Population centres

Population numbers of the towns and villages, from SCB, December 31 of noted year.

ee also

*Köping (concept)

External links

* [http://www.lidkoping.se Lidköping Municipality] - Official site
* [http://www.lackokinnekulle.se/ Läckö Kinnekulle] - The "Götene-Lidköping Vänern" tourism company
*sv icon [http://runeberg.org/nfbp/0214.html Article "Lidköping"] - From Nordisk Familjebok (vol. 16, 1912)
*sv icon Lidköping describes its symbol and its uses. In Swedish only.