Talk:Former municipalities of Sweden

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This list is very inaccurate. In the first of the two local government reforms in Sweden during the 20th century the number of municipalities sunk from 2 498 to 1 037 as of January 1st, 1952. Already at that very date Sweden got 1 461 "former municipalities".

In 1974 there were only 278 municipalities left in the country. This list should therefore contain at least 2 220 names.

But, strictly speaking, all the former municipalities of Sweden were abolished on Januari 1st, 1971. The former städer (cities), köpingar (towns) and landskommuner (rural municipalities) were from that date replaced by kommuner (municipalities) of a uniform type. --Andhanq 22:10, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes I also realized it was inaccurate and it makes me a little sad. I don't know what to do about it. / Fred-Chess 22:37, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, ideally the list should contain every historic item. Does this mean all the former municipalities of Sweden before 1971? Maybe, and in that case some 2500 items must be listed (although if it grows that large it should be broken down by county). This is a lot of work, but Wikipedia shouldn't strive for less. In China there are some 900,000 villages :) Do you have a decent source about the details of the local government reforms? Punkmorten 23:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

There is a book (in Swedish) called "Sveriges komunindelning 1863-1993" (Sweden's municipal subdivision 1863-1993), Only very few changes have occured since 1993. It contains "family trees" for evey municipality in the country. Yes, it is as we say a "hästjobb" (a horse's work) to list them all here. It has not even been done in the Swedish version. But the articles on the present municipalities will soon contain information about the predecessors. --Andhanq 08:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC)