Jönköping Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Jönköpings kommun


county=Jönköping County
province=Småland
capital=Jönköping


arearank=52nd
area=1,935.24
arealand=1,488.75
populationrank=10th
population=122,194
densityrank=63rd
populationdensity=82.1
website=http://www.jonkoping.se/
footnotes=Area and population as of December 31, 2006

Jönköping Municipality ("Jönköpings kommun") is a municipality in Jönköping County, southern Sweden. The city Jönköping is the municipal seat. The municipality is situated by the southern end of lake Vättern.

Historical background

The area of the present municipality consists of more than twenty original municipal entities, among them three former cities. In 1952 the number of units was reduced to thirteen. The present municipality was created in connection with the nation-wide local government reform of 1971.

Localities

There are 16 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Jönköping Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

ee also

*Municipalities of Sweden
*Swedish National Board of Agriculture
*List of Jönköping Governors

References

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

External links

* [http://www.jonkoping.se/ Jönköping Municipality] - Official site
* [http://www.ngw.nl/int/zwe/j/jonkopin.htm Coat of arms]