Svedala Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Svedala kommun


county=Skåne County
province=Scania
capital=Svedala


arearank=246th
area=227.58
arealand=218.97
populationrank=125th
population=18,988
densityrank=58th
populationdensity=86.7
website=http://www.svedala.se/
footnotes=Area and population as of December 31, 2006

Svedala Municipality ("Svedala kommun") is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden, just southeast of Malmö. Its seat is located in the town of Svedala.

The present municipality is the result of a series of amalgamations, carried out in 1952, 1967, 1974 and 1977. Svedala was last municipality to be completed during the local government reform of the 1970-ies. There had been considerations adding the whole or parts of the territory to Malmö Municipality.

There exists a city partnership between Svedala Municipality and Bergen auf Rügen, Germany.

Localities

There are 5 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Svedala Municipality.

In the table the urban areas 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.svedala.se/ Svedala] - Official site
* [http://www.ngw.nl/int/zwe/s/svedala.htm Coat of arms]