Sandviken Municipality
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municipality in Gävleborg County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Gävleborg County
- Seat
- Sandviken
- Total
- 1,297.07 km (500.80 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,166.4 km (450.3 sq mi)
- Water
- 130.67 km (50.45 sq mi)
- Density
- 32.87/km (85.13/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Gästrikland
- Website
- sandviken.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Gävleborg County
- Capital
- Sandviken
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 38033
- Area
- 131
- Shares border with
- Heby Municipality
- Employees
- 4025
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- sandviken.se
- Image
- Sandviken railway station.JPG
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- Commons category
- Sandviken Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Sandviken Municipality
- short name
- Sandviken
- inception
- 1971-01-01
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Sandviken Municipality
- hashtag
- sandvikenskommun
- catchphrase
- Den moderna industristaden
- social media followers
- 1427
- citizens' initiative URL
- sandviken.se/kommunpolitik/demokratiochmedborgardialog/kommunfullmaktige/medborgarforslag.4.195dd5bf960ef47f87fff4313.html
- phone number
- +46-26-240000
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/sandviken_municipality
- number of viewers/listeners
- 256794
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Encyclopedic overview
Sandviken Municipality (Swedish: Sandvikens kommun) is a municipality in Gävleborg County, in east central Sweden. The seat is the town of Sandviken.
The present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Sandviken (itself instituted in 1943) with a number of surrounding rural municipalities.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sandviken Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.