Kramfors Municipality
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municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Västernorrland County
- Seat
- Kramfors
- Total
- 2,892.59 km (1,116.84 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,694.76 km (654.35 sq mi)
- Water
- 1,197.83 km (462.48 sq mi)
- Density
- 10.283/km (26.634/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Ångermanland
- Website
- http://www.kramfors.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Västernorrland County
- Capital
- Kramfors
- Population
- 17390
- Area
- 1196.1
- Body of water
- Ångermanälven
- Shares border with
- Härnösand Municipality
- Employees
- 2575
- Revenue
- 1791816000
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.kramfors.se
- Image
- Kramfors, Sweden - panoramio.jpg
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- inception
- 1971-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:Kramfors Municipality
- short name
- Kramfors
- total liabilities
- 414715000
- total equity
- 347849000
- Commons category
- Kramfors Municipality
- catchphrase
- Med Höga kusten
- phone number
- +46-612-800-00
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/municipality_of_kramfors
- twinned administrative body
- Lappajärvi
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Encyclopedic overview
Kramfors Municipality (Swedish: Kramfors kommun) is a municipality in Västernorrland County, northern Sweden. Its seat is located in the town Kramfors.
The rural municipality of Gudmundrå was in 1947 made one of the last administrative cities of Sweden and got the name Kramfors from an industrial settlement. In 1952 many of the surrounding entities were grouped into larger municipalities. The nationwide reform in 1971 made Kramfors a unitary municipality, but the amalgamation process was not fulfilled until 1974. The number of original units within the present municipality is eleven, including Bjärtrå.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kramfors Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.