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Värnamo Municipality

municipality in Jönköping County, Sweden

Key facts

Country: Sweden
Province: Småland
County: Jönköping County
Established: 1 January 1971
Seat: Värnamo
Type: Municipal council
Mayor: Tobias Pettersson ( Moderate Party )
Total: 1,382.41 km (533.75 sq mi)
Land: 1,216.17 km (469.57 sq mi)
Water: 166.24 km (64.19 sq mi)
Rank: 76th in Sweden
Time zone: UTC+01:00 ( CET )
Summer dst: UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
Iso 3166 code: SE
Municipal code: 0683
Website: kommun .varnamo .se (in Swedish)

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Värnamo Municipality (Swedish: Värnamo kommun) is a municipality in Jönköping County in southern Sweden, where the town Värnamo is seat.

The municipality was created in 1971, when the City of Värnamo (itself instituted in 1920) was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form an entity of unitary type. There are fourteen original units making up the present municipality.