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Åmål Municipality
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municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Västra Götaland County
- Seat
- Åmål
- Total
- 889.71 km (343.52 sq mi)
- Land
- 481.12 km (185.76 sq mi)
- Water
- 408.59 km (157.76 sq mi)
- Density
- 24.618/km (63.759/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Dalsland
- Website
- www.amal.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Älvsborg County
- Capital
- Åmål
- Population
- 11679
- Area
- 408.74
- Shares border with
- Lidköping Municipality
- Employees
- 1525
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.amal.se
- Image
- Åmål Centre.JPG
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- Commons category
- Åmål Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Åmål Municipality
- twinned administrative body
- Gadebusch
- short name
- Åmål
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- phone number
- +46-532-17000
- hashtag
- åmålskommun
- catchphrase
- Alltid något, sa han som fick se Åmål
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.amal.se/politik-och-namnder/lamna-medborgarforslag
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/amals_municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Åmål Municipality (Swedish: Åmåls kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Åmål.
The present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the former City of Åmål and the former rural municipality of Tössbo (the latter created in 1952).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Åmål Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.