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Boden Municipality
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municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Norrbotten County
- Seat
- Boden
- Total
- 4,285.13 km (1,654.50 sq mi)
- Land
- 4,007.86 km (1,547.44 sq mi)
- Water
- 277.27 km (107.05 sq mi)
- Density
- 7.0292/km (18.206/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Norrbotten
- Website
- www.boden.se
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Boden Municipality (Swedish: Bodens kommun) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Boden.
In 1919 the evolving garrison town of Boden was detached from Överluleå and instituted as a city municipality of its own. In 1967 the rest of Överluleå was merged into the city together with a part of Råneå. In 1971 Edefors (which in 1892 also had been detached from Överluleå) was added and the present municipality was formed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Boden Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.