Kristianstad Municipality

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Kristianstad Municipality (Kommun)

Kristianstad municipality in Sweden Map outlining municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Kristianstad
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	County	Skåne County
	Province	Scania
	Area      Rank	1,251 km² 76th of 290
	Population      Rank (2005)	75,592 24th of 290
	Density	60/km²

Kristianstad Municipality IPA: [kri'ɧansta] is a Swedish municipality in southernmost Sweden. Its seat is located in the city Kristianstad.

It is the seat of the Skåne Regional Council. It is rivalling Hässleholm Municipality as having the largest area of the province. It is however unparallelled in Sweden due to its large number of separate urban areas, with a total of nearly 30 in the municipality.

[edit] Municipal towns (urban areas) and villages

Arkelstorp Balsby Barum Bjärlöv Bäckaskog Degeberga Djurröd Ekestad Everöd Fjälkestad Fjälkinge Fjälkinge (östra delen) Färlöv Gringelstad Gärds Köpinge Hammar Hammarslund Horna Huaröd

Kiaby Kristianstad Källunda Linderöd Lyngby Maglehem Mjönäs Norra Åsum Nyehusen och Furuboda Nymö Olseröd Oppmanna Oppmanna (nordöstra delen) Ovesholm Rickarum Rinkaby Ripa Skepparslöv Tings Nöbbelöv

Tollarp Torsebro Tosteberga Träne Ullstorp Vanneberga Venestad Viby Vinnö Vittskövle Vånga Yngsjö Yngsjöstrand Åhus Önnestad Österslöv Östervång Östra Sönnarslöv Övarp

[edit] See also

• University College of Kristianstad
• Kristianstad County (abolished 1998)

[edit] External links

• Kristianstad - Official site

Municipalities of Skåne County

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