Hammarö Municipality

Hammarö Municipality
Hammarö kommun
Municipality

Coat of arms
Country Sweden
County Värmland County
Seat Skoghall
Area[1]
 • Total 464.16 km2 (179.21 sq mi)
 • Land 59.59 km2 (23.01 sq mi)
 • Water 404.57 km2 (156.21 sq mi)
  Area as of January 1, 2014.
Population (June 30, 2016)[2]
 • Total 15,552
 • Density 34/km2 (87/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code SE
Province Värmland
Municipal code 1761
Website www.hammaro.se

Hammarö Municipality (Hammarö kommun) is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Skoghall.

The municipality was created from Hammarö parish in 1863, and its territory has not been affected by the great municipal reforms of 1952 and 1971. With a land area of only 56.9 km2 it is Sweden's 12th smallest, as well as the smallest in Värmland County.

Geography

The municipality consists of the islands Hammarön and Vidön and the adjacent archipelago. The name Hammarö, or Hammarön, literally means "Hammer Island", and has given the municipality its name. The island itself is 47 km2 large, the third largest island of Lake Vänern, and located off the shore of Värmland, separated by the Klarälven river delta.

From Skoghall it is only 7 km to the city of Karlstad. Karlstad Municipality is the only municipality with bridge connections to Hammarö.

Industry

100 years ago the largest employers were all in the fishing sectors. Today, the company Stora Enso Skoghall, manufacturing cardboard boxes, has 950 employees. Second is Akzo Nobel Base Chemicals with 150, manufacturing chemical products.

Localities

While the vast majority of Hammarö's inhabitants live in a single urban area going by the Statistics Sweden designation of Skoghall, this urban area is split in two postal areas: Skoghall (western part) and Hammarö (eastern part). The name Skoghall is seldom used for the urban area in its entirety.

Sister cities

References

  1. ↑ "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (Microsoft Excel) (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
  2. ↑ "Folkmängd i riket, län och kommuner 30 juni 2016" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. August 17, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2016.

Coordinates: 59°20′N 13°26′E / 59.333°N 13.433°E / 59.333; 13.433

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/23/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.