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Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Dalarna County
- Seat
- Avesta
- Total
- 669.08 km (258.33 sq mi)
- Land
- 613.25 km (236.78 sq mi)
- Water
- 55.83 km (21.56 sq mi)
- Density
- 36.638/km (94.891/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Dalarna
- Website
- www.avesta.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Dalarna County
- Capital
- Avesta
- Population
- 22366
- Area
- 55.79
- Elevation
- 102
- Shares border with
- Norberg Municipality
- Employees
- 1925
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.avesta.se
- Image
- Avesta kommunhus 01.jpg
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- Commons category
- Avesta Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Avesta Municipality
- short name
- Avesta
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- phone number
- +46-226-645000
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- street address
- Kungsgatan 32, Avesta
- catchphrase
- Koppardalen – Outdoor – Sport / Attraktiva Avesta
- social media followers
- 1593
- citizens' initiative URL
- avesta.se/kommun-demokrati/delta-och-paverka/sa-har-lamnar-du-ett-medborgarforslag
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/avesta_municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Avesta Municipality (Swedish: Avesta kommun) is one of 290 municipalities of Sweden. It is in Dalarna County, in the central part of the country, and its seat is in the town of Avesta.
The municipality in its present size was created in 1967 when the four surrounding municipalities were joined with the then City of Avesta. In 1971 it became a municipality of unitary type.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Avesta Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.