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Hjo Municipality
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municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Västra Götaland County
- Seat
- Hjo
- Total
- 584.47 km (225.67 sq mi)
- Land
- 297.04 km (114.69 sq mi)
- Water
- 287.43 km (110.98 sq mi)
- Density
- 31.42/km (81.39/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Västergötland
- Website
- www.hjo.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Västra Götaland County
- Capital
- Hjo
- Population
- 9322
- Area
- 287.44
- Shares border with
- Jönköping Municipality
- Employees
- 775
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.hjo.se
- Image
- Hjo, Stora Torget, den 7 juni 2006.JPG
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- short name
- Hjo
- Commons category
- Hjo Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Hjo Municipality
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- catchphrase
- I Love Hjo
- phone number
- +46-503-350-00
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/hjo_municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Hjo Municipality (Swedish: Hjo kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Hjo.
The municipality was created in 1971, when the City of Hjo was amalgamated with a part of the rural municipality Värsås. In 1974 parts of Fröjered and Fågelås were added.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hjo Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.