Landskrona Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Landskrona kommun


county=Skåne County
province=Scania
capital=Landskrona


arearank=264th
area=153.43
arealand=141.16
populationrank=53rd
population=40,018
densityrank=23rd
populationdensity=283.5
website=http://www.landskrona.se/
footnotes=Area and population as of December 31, 2006

Landskrona Municipality ("Landskrona kommun") is a municipality in Skåne County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Landskrona.

The island of Ven was added to the "City of Landskrona" in 1959. The amalgamations leading to the present municipality took place in 1967, 1969 and 1974. Since 1971 it is a municipality of unitary type, like all other municipalities of Sweden.

Localities

There are 8 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Landskrona 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.

See also

*Municipalities of Sweden

References

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

External links

* [http://www.landskrona.se/ Landskrona Municipality] - Official site
* [http://www.ngw.nl/int/zwe/l/landskro.htm Coat of arms]