Svedala Municipality is a municipality

Municipalities of Sweden

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 in Skåne County

Skåne County

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 in southern Sweden

Sweden

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, just southeast of Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

. Its seat is located in the town of Svedala

Svedala

Svedala is a locality and the seat of Svedala Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 9,593 inhabitants in 2005.- References :...

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The present municipality is the result of a series of amalgamations

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, carried out in 1952, 1967, 1974 and 1977. Svedala was last municipality to be completed during the local government reform of the 1970s. There had been considerations of adding the whole or parts of the territory to Malmö Municipality

Malmö Municipality

Malmö Municipality is a municipality in Skåne County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Malmö.When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863 the old City of Malmö was made one of the country's 88 city municipalities and the first city council was elected...

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There exists a city partnership between Svedala Municipality and Bergen auf Rügen

Bergen auf Rügen

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, Germany

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.

Localities

There are 5 urban area

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...

s (also called a Tätort or locality) in Svedala Municipality.

In the table the urban areas are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Svedala Svedala Svedala is a locality and the seat of Svedala Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 9,593 inhabitants in 2005.- References :...	10 627
2	Bara Bara, Sweden Bara is a locality situated in Svedala Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 3,444 inhabitants in 2010.- Society :In Bara there is two schools, Folktandvården, health clinic, pizzeria and ICA Supermarket.South of Bara lies a PGA golfcourse...	3,444
3	Klågerup Klågerup Klågerup is a locality situated in Svedala Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 1,904 inhabitants in 2010. It is located next to road 108. This was the scene of the Klågerup Riots of 1811.- Society :...	1,904
4	Sjödiken Sjödiken Sjödiken is a locality situated in Svedala Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 363 inhabitants in 2005....	438
5	Holmeja Holmeja Holmeja is a locality situated in Svedala Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 232 inhabitants in 2005....	239

External links

• Svedala - Official site
• Coat of arms