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Östersund Municipality
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municipality in Jämtland County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Jämtland County
- Seat
- Östersund
- Total
- 2,501.08 km (965.67 sq mi)
- Land
- 2,208.31 km (852.63 sq mi)
- Water
- 292.77 km (113.04 sq mi)
- Density
- 29.4/km (76.1/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Jämtland
- Website
- www.ostersund.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Jämtland County
- Capital
- Östersund
- Official language
- Southern Sami
- Population
- 64963
- Area
- 292.82
- Shares border with
- Krokom Municipality
- Employees
- 6225
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.ostersund.se
- Image
- Östersunds rådhus.jpg
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- twinned administrative body
- Sanok
- owner of
- Jämtkraft Arena
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- catchphrase
- Östersundspulsen
- topic's main category
- Category:Östersund Municipality
- Commons category
- Östersund Municipality
- short name
- Staare
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Östersund Municipality
- native label
- Staaren tïelte
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.ostersund.se/kommun-och-politik/dialog-och-synpunkter/medborgarforslag.html
- phone number
- +46-63-14-30-00
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/ostersund_municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Östersund Municipality (Swedish: Östersunds kommun; Southern Sami: Staaren tjïelte) is a municipality in Jämtland County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Östersund, which is also the county seat of Jämtland County.
The present municipality was formed in 1971 by the amalgamation of the City of Östersund with five surrounding rural municipalities.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Östersund Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.