Kinna
Encyclopedia
Kinna is a locality
and the seat of Mark Municipality
, Västra Götaland County
, Sweden
. It had 14,555 inhabitants in 2005.
Kinna is located 30 km south of Borås
and 60 km south east of Gothenburg
. The original Kinna has grown together with surrounding Skene and Örby
making up the present locality.
Urban areas in Sweden
Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...
and the seat of Mark Municipality
Mark Municipality
Mark Municipality is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Kinna.The municipality was created with the municipal reform of 1971 by the amalgamation of eight previous entities. Most of them had themselves been formed by the 1952 municipal...
, Västra Götaland County
Västra Götaland County
Västra Götaland County is a county or län on the western coast of Sweden.The county is the second largest of Sweden's counties and it is subdivided into 49 municipalities . Its population of 1,550,000 amounts to 17% of Sweden's population...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. It had 14,555 inhabitants in 2005.
Kinna is located 30 km south of Borås
Borås
Borås is a locality and the seat of Borås Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 63,441 inhabitants in 2005.- Geography :Borås is located at the point of two crossing railways, among them the railway between Gothenburg and Kalmar, and is often considered the Swedish city gaining the...
and 60 km south east of Gothenburg
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
. The original Kinna has grown together with surrounding Skene and Örby
Örby, Kinna
Örby is a part of the town Kinna in Mark Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. The area has about 2,000 inhabitants and was formerly a locality of its own, but has grown together with Kinna.Örby is the home of sports club IFK Örby....
making up the present locality.
Sports
The following sports clubs are located in Kinna:- Kinna IFKinna IFKinna IF is a Swedish football club located in Kinna in Mark Municipality, Västra Götaland County.-Background:Since their foundation in 1934 Kinna IF has participated mainly in the middle and lower divisions of the Swedish football league system. The club currently plays in Division 2 Västra...
- Kinnaströms Sportklubb