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Salem Municipality
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municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Stockholm County
- Seat
- Salem
- Total
- 71.09 km (27.45 sq mi)
- Land
- 54.09 km (20.88 sq mi)
- Water
- 17 km (6.6 sq mi)
- Density
- 323.1/km (836.8/sq mi)
- Demonyms
- Salemite
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Södermanland
- Municipal code
- 0128
- Website
- www.salem.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Stockholm County
- Capital
- Salem
- Population
- 17370
- Area
- 16.99
- Shares border with
- Södertälje Municipality
- Employees
- 1075
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.salem.se
- Image
- Salems centrum.jpg
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- Commons category
- Salem Municipality
- inception
- 1983-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:Salem Municipality
- short name
- Salem
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/municipality_of_salem
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Salem Municipality
- separated from
- Botkyrka Municipality
- phone number
- +46-8-53259800
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Salem Municipality (Swedish: Salems kommun) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. The name traces its origins from Slæm in the 13th century, but was changed to Salem in the 17th century, inspired by the Biblical name of Jerusalem. Its seat is located in Salem.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Salem Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.