Borgholm Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Borgholms kommun


county=Kalmar County
province=Öland
capital=Borgholm


arearank=153rd
area=683.80
arealand=680.19
populationrank=196th
population=10,983
densityrank=194th
populationdensity=16.1
website=http://www.borgholm.se/
footnotes=Area and population as of December 31, 2006

Borgholm Municipality ("Borgholms kommun") is a municipality in Kalmar County, south-eastern Sweden, constituting the northern half of the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea. The municipal seat is located in the city of Borgholm.

Notable historic sites in this municipality are Borgholm Castle and Halltorps Estate.

The local government reform in the 1970s saw the creation of two municipalities on the island of Öland. Borgholm Municipality is the northern of the two and consists of sixteen original (pre-1952) entities. The southern half of the island is made up of Mörbylånga Municipality.

Localities

There are 5 urban areas (also called Tätort or localities) in Borgholm 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.

ister cities

Borgholm has four sister cities (a.k.a. twin towns):

*Rockford, Illinois, U.S.A.
*Łeba, Poland
*Zelenogradsk, Kaliningrad, Russia
*Korsnäs, Finland

References

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

External links

* [http://www.borgholm.se/ Borgholm Municipality] - Official site