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Alvesta Municipality
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municipality in Kronoberg County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Kronoberg County
- Seat
- Alvesta
- Total
- 1,074.26 km (414.77 sq mi)
- Land
- 974.19 km (376.14 sq mi)
- Water
- 100.07 km (38.64 sq mi)
- Density
- 20.341/km (52.683/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Småland
- Municipal code
- 0764
- Website
- www.alvesta.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Kronoberg County
- Capital
- Alvesta
- Population
- 19687
- Area
- 100.45
- Elevation
- 161
- Shares border with
- Sävsjö Municipality
- Employees
- 1875
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.alvesta.se
- Image
- Alvesta kommunhus.jpg
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- twinned administrative body
- Lengede
- Commons category
- Alvesta Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Alvesta Municipality
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Alvesta Municipality
- short name
- Alvesta
- phone number
- +46-472-15000
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- street address
- Centralplan 1, Alvesta
- catchphrase
- Alvesta Nästa!
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/alvesta_municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Alvesta Municipality (Swedish: Alvesta kommun) is a municipality in Kronoberg County, southern Sweden. Its seat is in Alvesta.
The present municipality was created in 1971, when the market town (köping) Alvesta (instituted in 1945) was amalgamated with four surrounding rural municipalities. Amalgamations had also taken place in 1952 and 1963. The number of original local government entities within the present municipality is twelve.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alvesta Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.