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Älvsbyn Municipality
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municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Norrbotten County
- Seat
- Älvsbyn
- Total
- 1,795.24 km (693.15 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,698.04 km (655.62 sq mi)
- Water
- 97.2 km (37.5 sq mi)
- Density
- 4.590/km (11.89/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Norrbotten
- Website
- www.alvsbyn.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Norrbotten County
- Capital
- Älvsbyn
- Population
- 7815
- Area
- 95.99
- Shares border with
- Boden Municipality
- Employees
- 1225
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.alvsbyn.se
- Image
- Älvsbyns kyrkstad 20110914.jpg
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- short name
- Älvsbyn
- topic's main category
- Category:Älvsbyn Municipality
- twinned administrative body
- Haapavesi
- catchphrase
- Norrbottens pärla
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- Commons category
- Älvsbyn Municipality
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.alvsbyn.se/kommun-och-politik/politik/demokrati/medborgarforslag
- phone number
- +46-929-17000
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/alvsbyn_municipality
- number of viewers/listeners
- 253826
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Encyclopedic overview
Älvsbyn Municipality (Swedish: Älvsbyns kommun) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Älvsbyn.
The present municipality has the same size as the original one, created at the time the municipalities of Sweden were formed in 1863. 1948-1968 a part of it constituted a market town (köping) and a municipality of its own, but the entities were reunited in 1969.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Älvsbyn Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.