Falkenberg Municipality
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municipality in Halland County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Halland County
- Seat
- Falkenberg
- Total
- 1,825.72 km (704.91 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,108.89 km (428.14 sq mi)
- Water
- 716.83 km (276.77 sq mi)
- Density
- 42.733/km (110.68/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Halland and Västergötland
- Website
- www.falkenberg.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Part of
- Västergötland
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Halland County
- Capital
- Falkenberg
- Population
- 47321
- Area
- 717.35
- Body of water
- Ätran
- Shares border with
- Halmstad Municipality
- Employees
- 3575
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- kommun.falkenberg.se
- Image
- Falkenbergs rådhus.JPG
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- twinned administrative body
- Ullensaker Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Falkenberg Municipality
- Commons category
- Falkenberg Municipality
- short name
- Falkenberg
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Falkenberg Municipality
- contains settlement
- Ätran
- citizens' initiative URL
- kommun.falkenberg.se/politikochdemokrati/sakandupaverka/lamnamedborgarforslag.4.45cbb2d615f957f40332bb3b.html
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +46-346-886000
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/falkenberg_municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Falkenberg Municipality (Swedish: Falkenbergs kommun) is a municipality in Halland County on the Swedish west coast. The town Falkenberg is the municipal seat.
The municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Falkenberg was amalgamated with six rural municipalities (themselves formed by the 1952 local government reform) and part of a seventh. There are 24 original entities within the area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Falkenberg Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.