Gnesta Municipality

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Gnesta kommun

County	Södermanland County
Province	Södermanland
Seat	Gnesta

Area • Total area • Land area	178th of 290 540.40 km² 462.66 km²
Population • Total	219th of 290 9,981 inhabitants
Density • Total	168th of 290 21.6 inhabitants/km²
Website	http://www.gnesta.se/
Area & population from SCB as of December 31, 2006

Gnesta Municipality (Gnesta kommun) is a municipality in Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Gnesta, with some 5,000 inhabitants.

The present municipality was created in 1992, when Nyköping Municipality (of which it had been a part since 1974) was split up.

It is in the middle of the cultural Södermanland province. Although it only has around 10,000 permanent inhabitants, the population increases substantially in the summer due to the many summer houses.

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 Localities
2 Sister cities
3 Politics
4 External link

[edit] Localities

From Statistics Sweden, 2004.

Gnesta has about 5,000 inhabitants
Björnlunda 760
Stjärnhov 573

[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 the Left Party, a minority party in the Gnesta municipal assembly, has broken ties with the mother organization to form a party of their own, the Left Democrats.