Nyköping Municipality
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Nyköping Municipality (Nyköpings kommun) is a municipality in Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Nyköping.
The municipality was created in 1971 with the amalgamation of the City of Nyköping and a great number of other municipalities. It was split up in three parts in 1992, when Gnesta Municipality and Trosa Municipality were created.
Industry
The municipality has 3,000 companies but more than 50% are sole traders. Only 80 have more than 25 employees; of those 33 have more than 50 employees.
A former military airfield in the municipality serves now as a civilian airport called Stockholm-Skavsta Airport.
Sister cities
The "Nordic sisters" were created following World War II. In chronological order:
- Nykøbing Falster, Denmark (1947)
- Iisalmi, Finland
- Notodden, Norway
- Lauf an der Pegnitz, Germany
- Salacgrīva, Latvia
- Vyborg, Russia
External links
- Nyköping Municipality - Official site