Gnesta Municipality

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**Gnesta Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Gnesta Municipality in Sweden Map outlining municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Gnesta
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	County	Södermanland County
	Province	Sörmland
	Area Rank	463 km² 182nd of 290
	Population Rank (2005)	9,935 x of 290
	Density	21.5/km²

Gnesta is a Municipality in Södermanland County, in central Sweden. Its seat is in Gnesta with some 5,000 inhabitants.

the municipality Gnesta was created quite recently in the 1990s. It is in the middle of the cultural Sörmland province. Although it only has around 10,000 permanent inhabitants, the population increases substantially in the summer due to the many summer houses.

Communcations are good, the commuting train north-east to Stockholm takes about an hour.

Industry-wise, Gnesta mostly has small companies with few employed. There are about 800 registered companies in the municipality, and a "large" company would have 25-50 employees.

1 Towns
2 Sister cities
3 Politics
4 External links

[edit] Towns

From Statistics Sweden, 2004. Gnesta has four towns.

Gnesta has about 5,000 inhabitants.
Björnlunda 760
Stjärnhov 573
Laxne 143

[edit] Sister cities

Gnesta has two sister cities both with around 6,000 inhabitants:

Saulkrasti, Latvia
Sundsøre Municipality, Denmark

[edit] Politics

The local branch of Vänsterpartiet, a minority party in the Gnesta municipal assembly, has broken ties with the mother organization to form a party of their own, Vänsterdemokraterna.