Värnamo Municipality
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municipality in Jönköping County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- Province
- Småland
- County
- Jönköping County
- Established
- 1 January 1971
- Seat
- Värnamo
- Type
- Municipal council
- Mayor
- Tobias Pettersson ( Moderate Party )
- Total
- 1,382.41 km (533.75 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,216.17 km (469.57 sq mi)
- Water
- 166.24 km (64.19 sq mi)
- Rank
- 76th in Sweden
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Municipal code
- 0683
- Website
- kommun .varnamo .se (in Swedish)
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Varnamo.se - Värnamo kommun
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Jönköping County
- Capital
- Värnamo
- Population
- 34534
- Area
- 166.24
- Shares border with
- Alvesta Municipality
- Employees
- 3575
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- kommun.varnamo.se
- Image
- Värnamo Stadshuset.JPG
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- Commons category
- Värnamo Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Värnamo Municipality
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- short name
- Värnamo
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Värnamo Municipality
- hashtag
- värnamokommun
- social media followers
- 1438
- citizens' initiative URL
- kommun.varnamo.se/kommun-och-politik/dialog-forslag-och-synpunkter/medborgarinitiativ.html
- phone number
- +46-370-37-70-00
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/municipality_of_varnamo
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Encyclopedic overview
Värnamo Municipality (Swedish: Värnamo kommun) is a municipality in Jönköping County in southern Sweden, where the town Värnamo is seat.
The municipality was created in 1971, when the City of Värnamo (itself instituted in 1920) was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form an entity of unitary type. There are fourteen original units making up the present municipality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Värnamo Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.