Helsingborg Municipality
Sign in to saveAlso known as Helsingborgs kommun, Hälsingborgs kommun, Hälsingborg Municipality
municipality in Skåne County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Scania County
- Seat
- Helsingborg
- Mayor
- Christian Orsing ( M )
- Total
- 423.97 km (163.70 sq mi)
- Land
- 344.01 km (132.82 sq mi)
- Water
- 79.96 km (30.87 sq mi)
- Density
- 443.72/km (1,149.2/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Scania
- Website
- www.helsingborg.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Malmöhus County
- Capital
- Helsingborg
- Population
- 152776
- Area
- 79.24
- Head of government
- Peter Danielsson
- Shares border with
- Landskrona Municipality
- Employees
- 11275
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.helsingborg.se
- Image
- Helsingborg town hall.jpg
Show 15 more facts
- Commons category
- Helsingborg Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Helsingborg Municipality
- short name
- Helsingborg
- contains settlement
- Allerum
- twinned administrative body
- Liepāja
- citizens' initiative URL
- helsingborg.se/kommun-och-politik/kontakt-och-paverkan/helsingborgsforslaget-for-dig-som-har-forslag-pa-hur-helsingborg-kan-utvecklas
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- catchphrase
- Staden för dig som vill något
- owner of
- Olympia
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Helsingborg Municipality
- social media followers
- 5443
- phone number
- +46-42-10-50-00
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- number of viewers/listeners
- 1054809
Sources (12)
via Wikidata · CC0
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Helsingborg Municipality (Swedish: Helsingborgs kommun) is a municipality in Scania County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Helsingborg, which is Sweden's eighth-largest city. The municipality had a population of 147,734 on 1 January 2019 and the metropolitan area has about 320,000 inhabitants.
Between 1912 and 1971 the name of the town was officially spelled Hälsingborg (rather like the region of Hälsingland but unlike neighbouring Danish Helsingør and the Finnish capital Helsingfors (Helsinki)). The spelling was changed back to the older version when the present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the Town of Hälsingborg with four surrounding rural municipalities. Since the 1990s the municipality again styles itself Helsingborgs stad (Town of Helsingborg). This usage is only nominal and has no effect on the status of the municipality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Helsingborg Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.