Flen Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Flens kommun


county=Södermanland County
province=Södermanland
capital=Flen


arearank=136th
area=830.59
arealand=722.04
populationrank=136th
population=16,222
densityrank=164th
populationdensity=22.5
website=http://www.flen.se/
footnotes=Area & population from SCB as of December 31, 2006

Flen Municipality ("Flens kommun") 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" (instituted in 1949), the market town ("köping") Malmköping and the surrounding countryside.

Localities

Figures from Statistics Sweden, 2004.

*Flen 6,107
*Malmköping 2,006
*Hälleforsnäs 1,737
*Sparreholm 799
*Skebokvarn 225
*Mellösa 549
*Bettna 410
*Vadsbro 118

Of these places, Malmköping, located about 15 km north of Flen, surpasses Flen as a tourism attraction due to its two annual markets. The traditions of markets in Malmköping goes back centuries, as Malmköping got market town rights (became a "köping") already in 1785.

External links

* [http://www.flen.se/ Flen Municipality] - Official site