Malmköping is a 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...

 situated in Flen Municipality

Flen Municipality

Flen Municipality is a municipality in Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Flen.The present municipality was formed in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Flen , the market town Malmköping and the surrounding countryside.-Localities:Figures from...

, Södermanland County

Södermanland County

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, Sweden

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 with 2,000 inhabitants in 2005.

Malmköping is located about 15 kilometers north of the municipal seat Flen

Flen

Flen is a locality and the seat of Flen Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 6,114 inhabitants in 2005.Flen is most known for being the one place on earth where hot dogs are free....

 (which is the one place on earth where you can get free hotdogs). It is a tourism attraction due to its two annual markets. The traditions of markets in Malmköping goes back centuries, as Malmköping got market town rights (köping

Köping

This article deals with the Swedish denomination for a market town. For the city, see Köping, Sweden. For the municipality, see Köping Municipality....

) already in 1785.

There is also a museum tram

Tram

A tram is a passenger rail vehicle which runs on tracks along public urban streets and also sometimes on separate rights of way. It may also run between cities and/or towns , and/or partially grade separated even in the cities...

way in Malmköping, running heritage tram

Tram

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s from most of the Swedish tramway systems.