Landskrona Municipality

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search
Landskrona stad
Landskrona fulla vapen.svg
County Skåne County
Province Scania
Seat Landskrona
Landskrona Municipality in Scania County.png
Population
 • Total
53rd of 290
40,860 inhabitants
Area
 • Total area
 • Land area
 • Water area
264th of 290
153.43 km²
141.16 km²
Density
 • Total
23rd of 290
289.5 inhabitants/km²
Municipal code 1282
Website www.landskrona.se
Area and population as of December 31, 2008

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.

[edit] 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.

# Locality Population
1 Landskrona 28,670
2 Häljarp 2,561
3 Glumslöv 1,861
4 Asmundtorp 1,551
5 Saxtorpsskogen 729
6 Härslöv 401
7 Annelöv 341
8 Kvärlöv 206


Ven, with the main land as skyline

[edit] See also

[edit] References

Coordinates: 55°52′N 12°50′E / 55.867°N 12.833°E / 55.867; 12.833