Skåne County

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Skåne County, or Skåne län, is the southernmost County or län, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the historical province Scania (Skåne). It borders the counties of Halland, Kronoberg and Blekinge.

Skåne County covers around 3% of Sweden's total area, but its population of 1,200,000 comprises 13% of Sweden's total population. The county is sub-divided into 33 municipalities, or kommuner, the largest being Malmö Municipality (270,000 inhabitants), Helsingborg Municipality (122,000), Lund Municipality (103,000 inhabitants) and Kristianstad Municipality (75,000 inhabitants).

**Skåne län**
Map highlighting the location of Skåne County in Sweden
	County	SE-M, SE044
	Residence City	Malmö
	Province	Scania, Halland
	Created	1998
	Area - -	11,027 km², 2.7% of Sweden; ranked 10th
	Population Reference: ranked list	1,156,070 inh., 105.7 inh/km²
	GRP	See this ranked list

1 Province
2 Administration
3 Municipalities
4 Politics
5 Heraldry
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Province

Skåne County is the administrative equivalent of the province Scania (Skåne).

Between 1719 and 1997, the county consisted of Malmöhus County and Kristianstad County. In 1997, they were merged to form the Skåne County.

[edit] Administration

The seat of residence for the Governor or Landshövding is the town of Malmö. The County Administrative Board is nominally a Government Agency headed by a Governor. See List of Skåne Governors.

[edit] Municipalities

[edit] Politics

Skåne Regional Council or Region Skåne is an evolved County Council that for a trial period has assumed certain tasks from the County Administrative Board and the Swedish Parliament.

[edit] Heraldry

The arms for Skåne County is the same as for the province of Scania only with the colors reversed and the crown, beak and tongue of the same color. When the arms is shown with a royal crown it represents the County Administrative Board, which is the regional presence of (royal) government authority. Blazon: "Gules, a Griffin's head erased Or, crowned and armed the same".