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Karlstad Municipality
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municipality in Värmland County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Värmland County
- Seat
- Karlstad
- Chairman of city executive board
- Per-Samuel Nisser (M)
- Deputy chairs of city executive board
- Linda Larsson (S) and Maria Frisk (MP)
- Total
- 1,517.74 km (586.00 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,169.11 km (451.40 sq mi)
- Water
- 348.63 km (134.61 sq mi)
- Density
- 83.951/km (217.43/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Värmland
- Website
- www.karlstad.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Värmland County
- Capital
- Karlstad
- Population
- 99007
- Area
- 349.27
- Elevation
- 88
- Shares border with
- Säffle Municipality
- Employees
- 7775
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- karlstad.se
- Image
- Stadshuset, Karlstad.JPG
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- Commons category
- Karlstad Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Karlstad Municipality
- twinned administrative body
- Nokia
- short name
- Karlstad
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Karlstad Municipality
- citizens' initiative URL
- karlstad.dialogportalen.se
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- catchphrase
- Solstaden Karlstad
- social media followers
- 1107
- phone number
- +46-54-5400000
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/karlstad_municipality
- P12749
- Bedřich Smetana
- number of viewers/listeners
- 952528
- official jobs URL
- karlstad.se/jobba-hos-oss/lediga-jobb
- open meeting page URL
- karlstad.se/kommun-och-politik/moten-kallelser-och-protokoll
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Encyclopedic overview
Karlstad Municipality (Swedish: Karlstads kommun) is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Karlstad.
The present municipality was established in 1971 when the former City of Karlstad was amalgamated with a number of surrounding rural municipalities.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karlstad Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.