Sandviken Municipality
Sandviken Municipality
Sandvikens kommun | |
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 Coat of arms | |
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| Country | Sweden |
| County | Gävleborg County |
| Seat | Sandviken |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,297.07 km2 (500.80 sq mi) |
| • Land | 1,166.4 km2 (450.3 sq mi) |
| • Water | 130.67 km2 (50.45 sq mi) |
| Area as of 1 January 2014. | |
| Population (31 December 2023)[2] | |
| • Total | 38,628 |
| • Density | 30/km2 (77/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | SE |
| Province | Gästrikland |
| Municipal code | 2181 |
| Website | www.sandviken.se |
Sandviken Municipality (Sandvikens kommun) is a municipality in Gävleborg County, in east central Sweden. The seat is the town Sandviken.
The present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Sandviken (itself instituted in 1943) with a number of surrounding rural municipalities.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms was granted to the then City of Sandviken upon its institution in 1943. The device in the middle is a steam hammer. After the municipality reform of 1971 the arms was taken over by the new, larger, entity.
Name
Note: As Sandviken means the sandy bay there are numerous other places of that name throughout Scandinavia.
Sports
Sandviken Municipality will be one of the co-arrangers of the 2017 Bandy World Championship, which will be held in Göransson Arena, a municipality owned bandy arena in Sandviken.[3]
See also
References
- ^ "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 2014-01-01. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
- ^ "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
- ^ "Bandy-VM 2017 till Sandviken" (in Swedish). Sandviken Municipality. 20 May 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
External links
- Sandviken - Official site
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