Skip to content
Arvika

File:Arvika_central_village.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ654308· pop 47· linked from 184 articles

Arvika is a locality and the seat of Arvika Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 27,032 inhabitants in 2026.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Arvika
Settlement.image_skyline
Arvika central village.jpg
Settlement.image_caption
Central Arvika in June 2004
Settlement.pushpin_map
Sweden
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
Sweden
Settlement.subdivision_type3
Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3
Arvika Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_type2
County
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Värmland County
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Värmland
Settlement.established_title
Established
Settlement.established_date
1911
Settlement.area_total_km2
10.62
Settlement.population_as_of
31 December 2010
Settlement.population_total
14,244
Settlement.population_density_km2
1341

via Wikipedia infobox

~4 min read

Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • Geography
  • History
  • Industry
  • Culture
  • International relations
  • Twin towns — Sister cities
  • Climate
  • References

Arvika is a locality and the seat of Arvika Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 27,032 inhabitants in 2026.

==Geography== The town of Arvika is situated at Kyrkviken, a bay of Glafsfjorden, Sweden's only inland fjord, a remnant of the time following the last ice age (once a fjord of the Ancylus Lake). The town is located approximately 380 km west of Stockholm, 250 km north of Gothenburg, 150 km east of Oslo, and 50 km from the Norwegian border.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arvika” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (4)

On the map

3 mapped locations