Värnamo Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Värnamo kommun


county=Jönköping County
province=Småland
capital=Värnamo


arearank=78th
area=1,391.24
arealand=1,222.75
populationrank=72nd
population=32,841
densityrank=144th
populationdensity=26.9
website=http://www.varnamo.se/
footnotes=Area and population as of December 31, 2006

Värnamo Municipality ("Värnamo kommun") is a municipality in Jönköping County in southern Sweden, where the town Värnamo is seat.

The municipality was created in 1971, when the "City of Värnamo" (itself instituted in 1920) was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form an entity of unitary type. There are fourteen original units making up the present municipality.

Localities

There are 9 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Värnamo Municipality.

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

References

* [http://www.scb.se Statistics Sweden]

External links

* [http://www.varnamo.se/ Värnamo Municipality] - Official site