Vimmerby Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Vimmerby kommun


county=Kalmar County
province=Småland
capital=Vimmerby


arearank=93rd
area=1,225.90
arealand=1,145.43
populationrank=141st
population=15,588
densityrank=210th
populationdensity=13.6
website=http://www.vimmerby.se/
footnotes=Area and population as of December 31, 2006

Vimmerby Municipality ("Vimmerby kommun") is a municipality in Kalmar County, south-eastern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Vimmerby.

Stångån is a small river running through the municipality.

The municipality was created by the local government reform of 1971, when the "City of Vimmerby" was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form an entity of unitary type.

Localities

There are 6 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Vimmerby 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

Sister cities are cities or towns related to one another in size and history.

*Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead, Minnesota in the U.S.A.
*Skærbæk in Denmark
*Kauhava in Finland
*Þorlákshöfn in Iceland
*Rygge in Norway
*Joniškis in Lithuania

References

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

External links

* [http://www.vimmerby.se/ Vimmerby Municipality] - Official site