Sollefteå
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| Country | Sweden |
| Municipality | Sollefteå Municipality |
| County | Västernorrland County |
| Province | Ångermanland |
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| - Total | 9.41 km² (3.6 sq mi) |
| Population (2005-12-31)[1] | |
| - Total | 8,530 |
| - Density | 907/km² (2,349.1/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
Sollefteå is a town (8,700) in Ångermanland, Sweden and the seat of Sollefteå Municipality, Västernorrland County.
Sollefteå developed as municipalsamhälle (a kind of borough remaining part of its original municipality), got the title of a market town köping in 1902 a city in 1917. It is now the seat of the much larger Sollefteå Municipality. Sollefteå is, despite its small population, for historical reasons normally still referred to as a city. Statistics Sweden, however, only counts localities with more than 10,000 inhabitants as cities.
Sollefteå marketplace 1872
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- ^ a b Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km2 2000 och 2005 (xls) (Swedish). Statistics Sweden. Retrieved on 2008-05-15.
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Sollefteå is one of 134 towns with the historical City status in Sweden. |
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