Vänersborg Municipality
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municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Västra Götaland County
- Seat
- Vänersborg
- Total
- 898.83 km (347.04 sq mi)
- Land
- 642.7 km (248.1 sq mi)
- Water
- 256.13 km (98.89 sq mi)
- Density
- 62.36/km (161.5/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Västergötland and Dalsland
- Website
- www.vanersborg.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Part of
- Dalsland
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Västra Götaland County
- Capital
- Vänersborg
- Population
- 40078
- Area
- 254.87
- Shares border with
- Lilla Edet Municipality
- Employees
- 4225
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.vanersborg.se
- Image
- Vänersborgs kommunhus 01.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.vanersborg.se/kommun--politik/politik-och-demokrati/dialog-och-synpunkter/lamna-medborgarforslag.html
- Commons category
- Vänersborg Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Vänersborg Municipality
- twinned administrative body
- Husby
- Commons gallery
- Vänersborg Municipality
- owner of
- Arena Vänersborg
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- catchphrase
- Regionhuvudstaden vid Vänerns sydspets
- phone number
- +46-521-721000
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/vanersborg_municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Vänersborg Municipality (Swedish: Vänersborgs kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Vänersborg.
The present municipality was created during the local government reform in the early 1970s. In 1971 the City of Vänersborg became a municipality of unitary type and three years later it was amalgamated with three surrounding municipalities. The number of original local government entities (as of 1863) is eight.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vänersborg Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.