Tanum Municipality
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municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Key facts
- Country
- Sweden
- County
- Västra Götaland County
- Seat
- Tanumshede
- Total
- 2,351.35 km (907.86 sq mi)
- Land
- 917.24 km (354.15 sq mi)
- Water
- 1,434.11 km (553.71 sq mi)
- Density
- 13.908/km (36.022/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SE
- Province
- Bohuslän
- Website
- www.tanum.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Sweden
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Gothenburg and Bohus County
- Capital
- Tanumshede
- Population
- 12677
- Area
- 1433.23
- Shares border with
- Strömstad Municipality
- Employees
- 1525
- Legal form
- municipality of Sweden
- Official website
- www.tanum.se
- Image
- Sockenmagasinet, Tanumshede.jpg
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- inception
- 1971-01-01
- Commons category
- Tanum Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Tanum Municipality
- twinned administrative body
- Capo di Ponte
- short name
- Tanum
- catchphrase
- Kommun utan gränser
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.tanum.se/kommunpolitik/dialogochsynpunkter/medborgarforslag.4.7664b4813898b7df98449e7.html
- freedom of information requests URL
- handlingar.se/en/new/the_municipality_of_tanum
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Encyclopedic overview
Tanum Municipality (Swedish: Tanums kommun; IPA: [ˈtânːɵm]) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in southwestern Sweden. Its seat is the town of Tanumshede, with 1,600 inhabitants.
The present municipality was formed in 1971 through the amalgamation of three former units. Before the subdivision reform of 1952, there were seven entities in the area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tanum Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.