Lidköping Municipality

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**Lidköping Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Lidköping in central V. G. County in Sweden Map outlining municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Lidköping
	58° 30′ N 13° 11′ E
	County	Västra Götaland County
	Province	Västergötland
	Area Rank	703 km² 137th of 290
	Population Rank (2005)	37,241 x of 290
	Density	53/km²

Coordinates: 58° 30′ N 13° 11′ E

Lidköping Municipality is a Swedish municipality in Västra Götaland County, in western Sweden. It is neatly situated on the southern shore of Lake Vänern. Its seat is located in the town Lidköping with 25,000 inhabitants.

Lidköping sometimes refers to itself as "Lidköping by Vänern", possibly to distinguish itself from the namewise (and historically) similar city Linköping.

1 Geography
2 Symbol
3 Population centres
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Geography

The municipality of Lidköping is together with its western neighbor Götene located on the Läckö-Kinnekulla peninsula. In association with several large local companies, they have a colloquial tourism company known as "Götene-Lidköping Vänern Turist AB".

Läckö Castle

There are several Vänern islands that belong to the municipality. One of them is Läckö, where the Läckö Castle is a notable sight.

[edit] Symbol

Lidköping is working hard to market itself as "Lidköping by Vänern". In line with this quest, they are developing a profile plan, wherein they have established the use of a symbol depicting its location by Vänern. The symbol is used in all official context, and also on the road sign when entering Lidköping.

[edit] Population centres

Population numbers of the towns and villages, from SCB, December 31 of noted year.

Year	2002	2003	2004
Lidköping	24,679	24,885	24,960
Vinninga	1,079	1,060	1,054
Järpås	865	868	876
Filsbäck	656	656	652
Örslösa	308	305	310
Saleby	219	218	217
Tun	219	210	208

[edit] See also

Municipalities of Sweden
Köping (concept)

[edit] External links

Lidköping - Official site
Läckö Kinnekulle - The "Götene-Lidköping Vänern" tourism company
(Swedish) article Lidköping from Nordisk Familjebok (vol. 16, 1912)
(Swedish) Lidköpings kommun profilprogram.pdf Lidköpings describes its symbol and its uses. In Swedish only.